Mary Baker
Mary Baker
Mary Bakerwas an English painter of portraits and portrait miniatures...
hard-work successful people
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.
purifying elevating
Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.
order purpose may
Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.
perseverance men miracle
The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.
letting-go prayer humility
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.
prayer asking affection
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.
life writing heart
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
blessing today infinite
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
law christianity truth-is
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
people mischief busybodies
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars ...
prayer effort humanity
All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.
hate hatred rejects
Reject hatred without hating.
love achievement honest
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.
dogma spots confined
God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.