80 Thoughtful Quotes By Mary Baker Eddy
Unanimously proclaimed as the ‘mother of Christian Science’, Mary Baker Eddy was the prime mover of the Christian religion movement in the latter half of the 19th century in the Unites States. Her work ‘Science and Health’ redefined the relationship between spiritualism and healing methods. Through her theological study in this book, she tried to ascertain the fact that ailment is mere state of belief which must be annihilated by the understanding of the divine mind. Few passages from her book found its place in Sunday morning prayer along with the Bible. Science and Health has been inducted into the list of "75 Books By Women Whose Words Have Changed The World" by the Women's National Book Association. Having said that, her work received severe backlash due to the ideas she propagated. Even Mark Twain in his publication of Christian Science satirically criticized the ideologies of Mary Baker Eddy. In spite of the criticism, she developed a large following due to her thoughts and sayings which emphasized on affection, spirituality and self-righteousness. Here is a collection of some notable quotes by Mary Baker Eddy.
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way.
I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error.
Your birthday is a special day, May it bring you love and cheer It gives a chance for me to say, Happy birthday every year
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
No power can withstand divine Love.
Jealousy is the grave of affection
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
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.
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
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.
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
The time for thinkers has come.
The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.
Reject hatred without hating.
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love.
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars ...
If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and will stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.
