Quotes by Mary Baker Eddy

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
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
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
– 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
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
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
Reject hatred without hating.
– Mary Baker Eddy
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
– Mary Baker Eddy
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
– Mary Baker Eddy
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
– Mary Baker Eddy
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
– Mary Baker Eddy
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
– Mary Baker Eddy
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
– 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
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
– Mary Baker Eddy
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
– Mary Baker Eddy