Top 100 Mary Baker Eddy Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Reason is the most active human faculty.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

52. “All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

53. “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

54. “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

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

— Mary Baker Eddy

56. “Matter and death are mortal illusions.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

57. “The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

58. “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

59. “Father-Mother is the name for Deity...”

— Mary Baker Eddy

60. “Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

61. “God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

62. “Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

63. “Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ – Truth and Light.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

64. “Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

65. “The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

66. “God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

67. “Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

68. “To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

69. “Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind...”

— Mary Baker Eddy

70. “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

71. “The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

72. “You conquer error by denying its verity.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

73. “The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

74. “We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

75. “Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

76. “Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

77. “Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

78. “Disease is an image of thought externalized.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

79. “Jealousy is the grave of affection.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

80. “Whatever materializes worship hinders man’s spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

81. “Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

82. “The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

83. “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.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

84. “People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it’s a heck of a lot more complicated than that.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

85. “Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

86. “If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

87. “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

88. “Truth has no beginning.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

89. “In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

90. “Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

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

— Mary Baker Eddy

92. “Give to it the place in our institutions of learning now occupied by scholastic theology and physiology, and it will 142 eradicate sickness and sin in less time than the old systems, devised for subduing them, have required for self-establishment and propagation.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

93. “Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

94. “Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

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

— Mary Baker Eddy

96. “The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

97. “To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

98. “Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, – our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

99. “Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people’s altars...”

— Mary Baker Eddy

100. “Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.”

— Mary Baker Eddy