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.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind’s faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity—namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Mistakes
Evil thoughts, lusts, and malicious purposes cannot go forth, like wandering pollen, from one human mind to another, finding unsuspected lodgment, if virtue and truth build a strong defence.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Truth
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Health
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.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Prayer
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?
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Civilization
Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Joy
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Faith, God, Divinity
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Mistakes
Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Greatness, Great, God, Light
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.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Mind, The Mind
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.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Advice, Disease, Harmony
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.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Sin
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Affection
People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it’s a heck of a lot more complicated than that.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Photography
Achievements, and energies; it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and ensures sureness.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Ability
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: The Present, Present
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Achievements, Achieving
Reject hatred without hating.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Hate, Hatred
Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind…
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Labor, Kind, God
To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Love, Good
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: God, Faith, Divinity
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.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Ideals, Happiness
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.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Evil, Wickedness
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