Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddywas the founder of Christian Science, a new religious movement in the United States in the latter half of the 19th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth16 July 1821
CityBow, NH
CountryUnited States of America
materialistic blind knowledge-is-power
If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.
despair lessons remember
Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance.
errors safe armor
Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited.
endure
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.
beauty spiritual pain
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.
hard-work successful people
All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.
blessed loved-ones inevitable
To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.
dogma spots confined
God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.
defeat motive
A wrong motive involves defeat.
purifying elevating
Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.
depressing care guidance
In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.
love-is and-love divine
The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.
christian men evil
This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man - governed by God, his perfect Principle - is sinless and eternal.
jealousy affection graves
Jealousy is the grave of affection.