Great Throughts Treasury

"It is plain that God does not employ drugs or hygiene, nor provide them for human use; else Jesus would have recommended and employed them in his healing. The sick are more deplorably lost than the sinning, if the sick cannot rely on God for help and the sinning can.... The universal belief in physics weighs against the high and mighty truths of Christian metaphysics. This erroneous general belief, which sustains medicine and produces all medical results, works against Christian Science.... If we would heal by the Spirit, we must not hide the talent of spiritual healing under the napkin of its form.... The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so many parodies on legitimate Christian Science, aflame with divine Love."

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

"Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil."

"It is contrary to Christian Science to suppose that life is either material or organically spiritual."

"Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin."

"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."

"Reject hatred without hating."

"Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven."

"Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us."

"The time for thinkers has come."

"The admission to one?s self that man is God?s own likeness sets man free to master the infinite idea."

"The theory of three person in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polytheism, rather than the one ever-present I AM.... Jesus Christ is not God, as Jesus himself declared, but is the Son of God."

"The material blood of Jesus was no more efficacious to cleanse from sin when it was shed upon 'the accursed tree,' than when it was flowing in his veins as he went daily about his Father's business."

"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"

"Truth has no beginning."

"When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts."

"Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change."