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When spiritual being is understood in all its perfection, continuity, and might, then shall man be found in God’s image.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p325: 13-15)
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When spiritual being is understood in all its perfection, continuity, and might, then shall man be found in God’s image.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p325: 13-15)
What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p4: 3-5)
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Readings from the Bible and the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
When man is spoken of as made in God’s image, it is not sinful and sickly mortal man who is referred to, but the ideal man, reflecting God’s likeness. (Science and Health p346: 2)
Man’s genuine selfhood is recognizable only in what is good and true. Man is neither self-made nor made by mortals. God created man. (Science and Health p294:25)
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Unselfishness, purity, and affection are constant prayers.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p15:26)
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We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p248)
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Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p506)