Quotes from Stephen Gottschalk

Eddy believed that everyone, not just a few mystics and saints, has an unimaginably rich potential relation to God that can be entered into amidst everyday life.

the derivative of experience." When toward the end of the chapter "Prayer" in Science and Health Eddy writes, "Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God," one senses that her words were rooted in her life.

differed sharply from Eddy's conviction that the human mind, far from being a potentially curative agent, was the cause of disease rather than its cure.