Peace & Satisfaction
“The highest trust is putting our faith not in human circumstances or other people but in God and divine goodness. ...When we trust God, we find goodness to be real and forever ongoing because it is God-inspired, God-established, and God-maintained.”
“...when we acknowledge that God is the supreme Mind and that He will lead us only in ways that are right for us, we can trust God to do just that.”
“Trust is a spiritual muscle that needs to be exercised and thereby strengthened. We strengthen it by keeping God’s nature—His all-power, ever-presence, and comforting, healing love—uppermost in our thinking and by allowing God to govern our actions. Like all exercise, sometimes this takes great effort.”
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”
Proverbs 3
The Bible, New Living Translation
“The chaos of mortal mind is made the stepping-stone to the cosmos of immortal Mind.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 56
“Chaos – a total lack of organization or order”
“Cosmos – a complete, orderly, harmonious system”
“...we can detect early the fear that underlies chaos or hatred and let our thoughts be informed by divine Mind in a peace-generating direction.”
“We can all learn how to see through and beyond the chaos to the security of God's cosmos—learn to see the actual presence of God's kingdom here on earth.”
“...human circumstances in and of themselves cannot cause stress. It’s what we consent to as having authority over our thinking—be it God or human circumstances—that determines our mental poise or lack of it, as well as the actual outcome of the circumstances.”
“Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from us now the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
Christian Science Hymnal
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.”
Isaiah 26:3
The Bible, King James Version
“It is our oneness with God that keeps us safe, and in the awareness of this tender relationship, worry melts away like icicles in the sun.”
“Gratitude is much more than a verbal expression of thanks.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 3
“Action expresses more gratitude than speech.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 3
“...whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
Philipians 4:8
The Bible, King James Version
“Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
“No greater hope have we than in right thinking and right acting, and faith in the blessing of fidelity, courage, patience, and grace.”
Mary Baker Eddy
First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany
“Know, then, that you possess sovereign power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dispossess you of this heritage and trespass on Love.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Pulpit and Press
“... I am able to impart truth, health, and happiness, and this is my rock of salvation and my reason for existing.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Miscellaneous Writings
“Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.”
Luke 12
The Bible, King James Version
“Every child of God has place, purpose, and boundless opportunities.”
“...if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
II Corinthians 5
The Bible, King James Version
“Willingness to become as a little child and to leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of the advanced idea.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
“When outgrowing the old, you should not fear to put on the new.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
“First, they always begin with God. This seemed fairly obvious to me until I realized how often I started my communion with the Almighty by telling Him my problems, needs, plans, or goals.”
“Second, effective prayer is more about listening than talking. ...listening to God, divine Truth, through spiritual sense — our innate ability to hear and understand God — demonstrates humility, spiritual hunger, and willingness to follow God’s direction.”
“The test of all prayer lies in the answer to these questions: Do we love our neighbor better because of this asking? Do we pursue the old selfishness, satisfied with having prayed for something better, though we give no evidence of the sincerity of our requests by living consistently with our prayer?”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
“Third, I’ve learned from experience that our prayers are incomplete — much like bread without baking — until we put the inspiration we’re gaining from God into practice.”
“Material-mindedness is behind whatever drabness, pressure, and grind we might feel within our experience. Spiritual-mindedness, on the other hand, rests and restores and brings practical solutions to light.”
“… we find the holy presence of God showing up in moments of such tender grace and gorgeous brilliance that ordinary days transform into extraordinary ones.”
“Daily prayer replaces the daily grind and reveals the sweetness and sacredness of life, the holiness at the heart of each and every day!”