Explore Quotes by Mary Baker Eddy

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of _x000D_ good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of _x000D_ God wherewith to overcome all error.

No power can withstand divine Love.

I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness.

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love.

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited.

The time for thinkers has come.

This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man - governed by God, his perfect Principle - is sinless and eternal.

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science