Quotes from 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 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
Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Life is real, and death is the illusion.
- Mary Baker Eddy
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
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.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections.
- 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
When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way.
- Mary Baker Eddy
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.
- Mary Baker Eddy
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.
- Mary Baker Eddy