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.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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
The superiority of spiritual power over sensuous is the central point of Christian Science.
— Mary Baker Eddy
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
— Mary Baker Eddy
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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
The periods of spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind's creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness — yea, the divine nature — appear in man and the universe never to disappear. -Mary Baker Eddy (SH 509:24)
— Mary Baker Eddy
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
— Mary Baker Eddy
In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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
Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.
— Mary Baker Eddy