Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Mary Baker Eddy (American Religious Leader)

Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910,) née Mary Baker, was an influential American Christian religious reformer and the founder of the Christian Science movement. Her life and teachings significantly impacted the development of alternative spirituality and healing practices during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Born in Bow, near Concord, New Hampshire, Baker endured chronic health issues during her childhood. As she grew older, she explored various medical treatments and healing systems to find relief. However, it was in 1866 that she experienced a transformative spiritual revelation, which she believed led to her instantaneous healing. This event became the cornerstone of her teachings and subsequent work.

From 1866 to 1872, Baker started writing and teaching classes on Christian healing. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875,) outlined the principles of Christian Science and emphasized the power of spiritual healing through prayer. This book became the central text of the Christian Science movement. In 1879, she established the Church of Christ, Scientist.

Eddy’s emphasis on spiritual healing and rejection of conventional medicine made her controversial. Her teachings challenged established medical practices, leading to debates about the effectiveness and safety of relying solely on prayer for healing. Additionally, her charismatic leadership and centralized authority within the Christian Science movement drew criticism, with accusations of authoritarianism and cult-like behavior.

In 1892, Eddy organized the Mother Church of Christian Science in Boston and became its pastor emeritus. She published a manual for the church’s operation in 1895. In 1908, she returned to Boston and founded the Christian Science Monitor, an internationally acclaimed newspaper.

Biographies on Mary Baker Eddy include Robert Peel’s Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery (1966,) Robert Peel’s Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority (1977,) and William W. Walter’s Mary Baker Eddy: The Prophetic and Historical Perspective (1998.)

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Achievements, and energies; it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and ensures sureness.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Ability

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Health

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jealousy is the grave of affection.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Affection

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Divinity, God, Faith

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

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind…
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Kind, God, Labor

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: The Present, Present

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

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Sin

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

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

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

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Topics: Mistakes

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: The Mind, Mind

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

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: Great, God, Greatness, Light

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: Harmony, Advice, Disease

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

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