Mary Baker Eddy

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

How would you define Christian Science? As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony. p. 1

At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you.

The following is a brief exposition of the important points, or religious tenets, of Christian Science: — p. 496-497

Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so …

The sick are more deplorably lost than the sinning, if the sick cannot rely on God for help and the sinning can.

Mystery does not enshroud Christ's teachings, and they are not theoretical and fragmentary, but practical and complete

Christianity is again demonstrating the Life that is Truth, and the Truth that is Life

Jesus' life proved, divinely and scientifically, that God is Love

The atonement requires constant self-immolation on the sinner's part.

Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God. Self-forgetfulness, purity, and affection are constant prayers. Practice not profession, understanding not belief, gain the ear and right hand of …

If our petitions are sincere, we labor for what we ask; and our Father, who seeth in secret, will reward us openly.

Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the principle of mathematics to solve the problem? The rule is already established, and it is our task to work out the solution. Shall we ask the divine Principle of all goodness to do His own …

The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, — a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love.

The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no …