Mary Baker
Mary Baker
Mary Bakerwas an English painter of portraits and portrait miniatures...
stupid drug mind
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
christian men evil
This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man - governed by God, his perfect Principle - is sinless and eternal.
love-is and-love divine
The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.
life pain self
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.
depressing care guidance
In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.
defeat motive
A wrong motive involves defeat.
spiritual reality names
There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony and as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality. Chapter VII pp. 224 and 228 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
mother father men
Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
dust errors soil
Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.
prayer grace growth
What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
thinking creating ongoing
Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.
disappointment children tired
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.
truth
Truth has no beginning.
animal too-much moral
There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.