Quotes from Mary Baker Eddy

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in.

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

To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

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.

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.

Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.

In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.

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.

Step by step will those who trust Him find that 'God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.'

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error

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

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.