Mary Baker Eddy
Born: 01-01-1821
Mary Baker Eddy was a pioneering religious leader and author, best known for founding the Christian Science movement in the 19th century. Her influential book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," outlines her beliefs in spiritual healing and the power of prayer. Eddy's innovative ideas challenged conventional medicine and religious practices, leaving a lasting impact on spirituality and health discourse worldwide.
Book summaries for books written by Mary Baker Eddy
Quotes
Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.
God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.
God is not moved by the breath of praise to do more than He has already done, nor can the infinite do less than bestow all good, since He is unchanging wisdom and Love.
In divine Science, where prayers are mental, all may avail themselves of God as 'a very present help in trouble.'
Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind, and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul.
The calm and exalted thought or spiritual apprehension is at peace. Thus the dawn of ideas goes on, forming each successive stage of progress.
Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds.
God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis.
The substance of all devotion is the reflection and demonstration of divine Love, healing sickness and destroying sin.
God is not separate from the wisdom He bestows. The talents He gives we must improve.
Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth. The Psalmist saith: 'The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.'
Spirituality lays open siege to materialism.