Mary Baker Eddy

Who was Mary Baker Eddy?

Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of Christian Science, a new religious movement that emerged in New England in the late 19th century. Eddy is the author of the movement's textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. She also founded the Christian Science Publishing Society, which continues to publish a number of periodicals, including The Christian Science Monitor.

Married three times and widowed twice, once as a young woman and once in her sixties, she took the name Mary Baker Glover from her first marriage. She was also known from her third marriage as Mary Baker Glover Eddy and Mary Baker G. Eddy.

Famous Quotes:

• Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
• To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
• 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.
• Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
• Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.
• 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?
• Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
• Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
• 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.
• 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.