In Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy, Irving Tomlinson shares many quotes from Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.
Here is a quote (page 87) that I have not found anywhere
else:
“One time she told us
not to say there is too much or too little of anything. She said: God governs.
He knows best. He will do all things right.”
And page 95 tells us that, “She once contrasted sympathy and compassion by referring
to the feeding of the multitude by Jesus, by saying that Jesus had compassion
and fed them; he sympathized with them, he would have suffered because of their
hunger.”
Same page:
“When we are talking to one who is not a Christian Scientist, in speaking of a
disease, she continued, we are not to say that So-and-so has a belief. Say
plainly that he is sick. And she quoted Paul’s admonition, ‘I had rather speak
five words with my understanding. . .than ten thousand words in an unknown
tongue.’”
Page 98: “Error
comes to you for life, and you give it all the life it has.”
Page 106, 1st para.: “Each day there should drop from your lips some manna
to heal and bless others.”
And “Desire
is prayer. Words without desire are not prayer.”
Page 109: “I
have striven earnestly to have my students speak in a language which would be
understood,” Mrs. Eddy said. “It is not right for one to say to a poor
sufferer, wracked with pain, ‘Nothing ails you. You have no pain. You are not
suffering.’ I have said to students making this mistake, ‘The next time you
visit a patient tie a string to your tongue.’”
Page 156: “At
supper one evening she commented, ‘I do not believe in too much organization in
church. The churches are over-organized. Were I to have charge of a church today, I should have it founded on the Bible. I should talk to them from the
Bible. I should direct their thought to the Bible, and I should expect them to
be obedient to the Bible.’”
Joyce Voysey
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