Quotes from Mary Baker Eddy

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Father-Mother is the name for Deity.

Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.

Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.

No power can withstand divine Love.

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

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.

God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind.

The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.

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

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

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

Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

Health is not a condition of matter but of Mind.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

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

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

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.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.