Life is real, and death is the illusion.Collection: Real
Reason is the most active human faculty.Collection: Reason
It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivionCollection: Errors
Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making sin seem either too large or too little.Collection: Two
Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.Collection: Errors
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 ScripturesCollection: Spiritual
Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternalCollection: Spiritual
You conquer error by denying its verity.Collection: Errors
Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.Collection: Karma
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.Collection: God
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?Collection: Exercise
Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.Collection: Hypocrisy
Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.Collection: Prayer
Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and insures success.Collection: Spiritual
The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.Collection: Brother
Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.Collection: Thinking
We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories - that all is matter, or that all is Mind-will dispute the ground, until one is acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.Collection: Summer
In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.Collection: Nature
Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.Collection: Spiritual