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Mary Baker Eddy

(1821–1910) Writer United States

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Mary Baker Eddy was a writer from the United States, best known for Science and health: with key to the Scriptures.

Quick Facts About Mary Baker Eddy

Born: July 16, 1821
Died: December 3, 1910
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Science and health: with key to the Scriptures
Spouse: Asa Gilbert Eddy

About Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy was an American religious leader and author, who in 1879 founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, the Mother Church of the Christian Science movement. She also founded The Christian Science Monitor in 1908, and three religious magazines: the Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, and The Herald of Christian Science.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

National Women's Hall of Fame officier d'académie

Quotes by Mary Baker Eddy · Page 5

The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like…

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Arms

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We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories…

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Aids

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If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

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Blind

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“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.”

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Forgiveness

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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…

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Clamor

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Reason is the most active human faculty.

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Active

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Complaint is poverty.

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Complaints

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Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

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Matter

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Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise,…

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Air

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We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

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Cultivating

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Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

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Proof

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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…

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Accommodate

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Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

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Consistent

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The theory of three person in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polytheism, rather than the one ever-present…

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Christ

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When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

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Acceptable

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Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense…

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Body

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Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to…

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Clip

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A wrong motive involves defeat.

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Defeat

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Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science.

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Illusion

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To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

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Blessings

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Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

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Goodness

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Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

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Dignity

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In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science

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And love

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Mary Baker Eddy by topic

Love (35) Divine (18) Religion (15) Mind (15) Errors (14) Matter (13) Death (13) Men (12) Life (12) Prayer (11) Spiritual (10) Inspirational (10) Spirit (8) Sin (8) Should (8)