Man need not spend his days in ignorance of the science of Life, expecting death will make him harmonious and immortal, for it will not; we advance to Life understandingly, therefore we cannot step at once from death to Life, or from matter to Spirit. Only as we understand the Principle of being, and reach perfection, are we Spirit, and eternal. (Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health, 1st ed., p.435)

Evil cannot make an avenue of me to produce a manifestation of error, for there is no evil; and this declaration made every hour makes me invulnerable to evil.   Mary Baker Eddy

(Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.270)

I wait to say something from God that will help you.  Scriptures says, I am the way, &c.

In our journey we seem to be climbing a hill and there is but one way and that is straight up to the top.  Now what attitude of mind should we have to make our demonstration?

Ans: (1) “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me: (2) Obedience (3) Love &c.

We should know we are already at the top.  Then we shall not feel weariness in the climb.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Advice To Healers, Volume 3, p.133)

The error is to think one believes what one does not, and under- stands what one does not, and then to console one’s self with this self-deceived state of thought.  We have no possible proof that the state of our thought is right unless the effect of the state of thought produces the right result on the patient.  Human reason or human imagination is as material as pain.  Reasoning or reverie is as erroneous when treating the sick as a sensation of fever would be. The spiritual attitude and altitude gained is the measure of success in healing.  Human love can be mistaken; if it is divine, it removes fear and heals quickly.  If it is human and yet not at all impure, it does not heal.  I name these deep points in metaphysics to show what are wheat and what are tares.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and general Collectanea, p.270)

The Scriptures inform us man liveth “not by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Truth is the Life of man, but the age objects to making this practical, which is generally the case with all high requirements. We ask, consistently with the demands of God, and to-day, that less thought be given to what we shall eat, drink, or wear, that we live more simple and primitively, for this will increase longevity and morality. If we admit food can disturb the harmonious functions of mind and body, either the food or the belief must be dispensed with before man is harmonious. The belief that matter governs the Life of man must be met and mastered on some basis before man is learned immortal.   (Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health, 1st ed., p.436)

Keep your aim; stick to your text, and have faith in your under-standing of the letter of Christian Science:  for instance, the claim is paralysis.  Your aim is, there is no inaction, there is action.  Your text is, God is almighty, and you know it, and error is a lie and is powerless. Your faith is, God is All, and you know in whom you trust.    

This will win every time; this is the way Jesus healed the man who was healed of blindness, after two trials; stick to it, and know we  want to, and can heal in every case.  We know the Truth, and we must be more positive that we know it.  We are not hypnotists nor hypnotized.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.269)

I have through you, ordered the Board of Directors of the Mother Church to have a weather committee called the Benevolent Committee. Has this been done? What are the names of the students or of the student, that constitute this committee?  Instead of advertising weather in storm and sunshine, have this committee attend to its duty and give us scientific weather, God’s weather, and not the changes of mortal mind that are so disagreeable, made manifest in snow and sleet, thunder and lightning. Mary Baker Eddy (Advice To Healers, Volume 3, p.135)

Regarding vaccination; there is only the mental vaccination; I would take the point of Spirit which is Truth and prick the human affections, then inoculate with divine Love, circulating the system of thought, and the liability of contagious disease, sin, or sickness will cease.   Mary Baker Eddy

(Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.269)