Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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?
Mary Baker Eddy
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mary Baker Eddy
Age: 89 †
Born: 1821
Born: July 16
Died: 1910
Died: December 3
Author
Theologian
Writer
Bow
New Hampshire
Mary Baker
Mary Morse Baker
Mary Baker Glover Eddy
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Flesh
Flannels
Air
Idolatry
Civilization
Baths
Exercise
Brush
Higher
Brushes
Form
Bows
Men
Diet
Diets
More quotes by Mary Baker Eddy
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.
Mary Baker Eddy
Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.
Mary Baker Eddy
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Mary Baker Eddy
Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.
Mary Baker Eddy
A wrong motive involves defeat.
Mary Baker Eddy
The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.
Mary Baker Eddy
Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.
Mary Baker Eddy
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.
Mary Baker Eddy
The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.
Mary Baker Eddy
True prayer is not asking God for love it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.
Mary Baker Eddy
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.
Mary Baker Eddy
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.
Mary Baker Eddy
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.
Mary Baker Eddy
Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.
Mary Baker Eddy
Reject hatred without hating.
Mary Baker Eddy
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.
Mary Baker Eddy
Disease is an image of thought externalized.
Mary Baker Eddy
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy
Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.
Mary Baker Eddy
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.
Mary Baker Eddy
