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Mary Baker Eddy
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“I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.”
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“Life is real, and death is the illusion.”
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“Father-Mother is the name for Deity ...”
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“Truth has no beginning.”
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“Reason is the most active human faculty.”
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“Jealousy is the grave of affection. ”
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“Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the center, though not the boundary, of the affections.”
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“Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.”
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“Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love ...”
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“The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God ... ”
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“Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.”
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“Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.”
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“Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind ... ”
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“Our Father-Mother God, all harmonious. ”
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“There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage. ”
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“Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.”
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“Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.”
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“Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.”
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“Truth is immortal; error is mortal.”
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“Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.”
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“Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.”
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“Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.”
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“Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.”
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“Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.”
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“True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.”
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“Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.”
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“Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.”
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“Matter and death are mortal illusions.”
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“Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.”
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“Leaning on the sustaining Infinite, to-day is big with blessings. ”
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“... sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science ...”
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“Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars ...”
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“In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones ... ”
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“Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making sin seem either too large or too little ...”
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“Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.”
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“God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.”
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“Spring is my sweetheart ... ”
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“I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals—grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown God. ”
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“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, U.S. theologian, pastor, writer, founder of Christian Science and <i>The Christian Science Monitor</i>
(1821 - 1910)
Full name: Mary Morse Baker Glover Patterson Eddy