If you venture upon the quiet surface of error and are in sympathy with error, what is there to disturb the waters? What is there to strip off error's disguise?
If you launch your bark upon the ever-agitated but healthful waters of truth, you will encounter storms. Your good will be evil spoken of. This is the cross. Take it up and bear it, for through it you win
there is no cause (outside of erring, mortal, material sense which is not power) able to make you sick or sinful
Material sense lifts its voice with the arrogance of reality and says: I am wholly dishonest, and no man knoweth it. I can cheat, lie, commit adultery, rob, murder, and I elude detection by smooth-tongued villainy. Animal in propensity, deceitful in sentiment, fraudulent in purpose, I mean to make my short span of life one gala day. What a nice thing is sin! How sin succeeds, where the good purpose waits! The world is my kingdom. I am enthroned in the gorgeousness of matter. Like bursting lava, I expand but to my own despair, and shine with the resplendency of consuming fire.
Spirit, bearing opposite testimony, saith: I am Spirit. Man, whose senses are spiritual, is my likeness. He reflects the infinite understanding, for I am Infinity. The beauty of holiness, the perfection of being, imperishable glory,--all are Mine, for I am God. I give immortality to man, for I am Truth. I include and impart all bliss, for I am Love. I give life, without beginning and without end, for I am Life. I am supreme and give all, for I am Mind. I am the substance of all, because I AM THAT I AM.
Mortal thoughts chase one another like snowflakes, and drift to the ground.
happiness is never the sport of circumstance.
Organization and time have nothing to do with Life.
Note: I took liberty of rewriting the second quote to be more to the point that I read from it.
We are all sculptors, working at various forms, [molding] and chiseling thought.
give up imperfect models and illusive ideals
We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually
Man is by no means a material germ rising from the imperfect and endeavoring to reach Spirit above his origin.
Life and goodness are immortal. Let us then shape our views of existence into loveliness, freshness, and continuity, rather than into age and blight.
Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty, and holiness.
decrepitude is not according to law, nor is it a necessity of nature, but an illusion
The divine Science of man is woven into one web of consistency without seam or rent. Mere speculation or superstition appropriates no part of the divine vesture, while inspiration restores every part of the Christly garment of righteousness.
Mortal mind is the acknowledged seat of human motives. It forms material concepts and produces every discordant action of the body. If action proceeds from the divine Mind, action is harmonious. If it comes from erring mortal mind, it is discordant and ends in sin, sickness, death. Those two opposite sources never mingle in fount or stream. The perfect
Mind sends forth perfection, for God is Mind. Imperfect mortal mind sends forth its own resemblances, of which the wise man said, "All is vanity."
Question: Is there a list of all mini-treatments like this somewhere on the Internet?
People with mental work before them have no time for gossip about false law or testimony.
The objects we pursue and the spirit we manifest reveal our standpoint, and show what we are winning.
Mary Baker Eddy has a few thoughts about leaders. What a wonderful reading to pray about in all kinds of circumstances.
inferior motives induce the infuriated attacks on individuals…
A mother is the strongest educator, either for or against crime.
To prevent the experience of error and its sufferings, keep out of the minds of your [protégés] either sinful or diseased thoughts.
Words to find or describe leaders
compass the destruction of sin and sickness by overcoming the thoughts which produce them, and by understanding the spiritual idea which corrects and destroys them
The counter fact relative to any disease is required to cure it.
…discords have only a fabulous existence, are mortal beliefs which divine Truth and Love destroy
He [Jesus] referred man's harmony to Mind, not to matter...
By universal consent, mortal belief has constituted itself a law to bind mortals to sickness, sin, and death.This customary belief is misnamed material law, and the individual who upholds it is mistaken in theory and in practice.
It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.
God, good, can no more produce sickness than goodness can cause evil and health occasion disease.
The illusion of material sense, not divine law, has bound you, entangled your free limbs, crippled your capacities, enfeebled your body, and defaced the tablet of your being.
The transmission of disease or of certain idiosyncrasies of mortal mind would be impossible if this great fact of being were learned,--namely, that nothing inharmonious can enter being, for Life is God.
There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God.
There is always some tumult, but there is a rallying to truth's standard.
Love is the liberator.
on earth peace, good-will toward men
Matter does not express Spirit.
Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government.
A higher and more practical Christianity, demonstrating justice and meeting the needs of mortals in sickness and in health, stands at the door of this age, knocking for admission.
He learned that suffering and disease were the self-imposed beliefs of mortals, and not the facts of being; that God never decreed disease, –never ordained a law that fasting should be a means of health.
This new-born understanding, that neither food nor the stomach, without the consent of mortal mind, can make one suffer, brings with it another lesson, –that gluttony is a sensual illusion, and that this phantasm of mortal mind disappears as we better apprehend our spiritual existence and ascend the ladder of life.
…we shall never affirm concerning the body what we do not wish to have manifested.
Science includes no rule of discord, but governs harmoniously.
Mortal mind forms all conditions of the mortal body, and controls the stomach, bones, lungs, heart, blood, etc., as directly as the volition or will moves the hand.
What renders both sin and sickness difficult of cure is, that the human mind is the sinner, disinclined to self-correction, and believing that the body can be sick independently of mortal mind and that the divine Mind has no jurisdiction over the body.
Treat a belief in sickness as you would sin, with sudden dismissal. Resist the temptation to believe in matter as intelligent, as having sensation or power.
If man is governed by the law of divine Mind, his body is in submission to everlasting Life and Truth and Love.
