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Then, Christian Scientist, at war with the world, the flesh, and the devil, choose whom ye will serve, and bear ye up bravely, be strong, be faithful, be joyful, and remember your Master’s words, “Lo, I am with you alway.”  If faithful, you will gain Christ, Truth, and set your affections on things above, and so becoming more spiritual, you will familiarize yourself with the actual truth of divine Science, and the yoke will then be found easy and the burden light.  The field for Christian healing is white already for the harvest, but the laborers are few, for many are called, but few are chosen.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Fragments Gathered From Unpublished Items Ascribed to Mary Baker Eddy, p.29)

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     Jesus showed us, teaching his disciples, students, that the letter of divine Science, like all science, must be acquired through the understanding, and needs to be taught, learned methodically, correctly and clearly.  But remember, the Spirit of Truth, which is divine Science, must be won, as well as the letter, for if either the spirit or the letter be lacking in the practitioner, he will not heal as he otherwise would, and the yoke will not be found easy, and the burden will not be light.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Fragments Gathered From Unpublished Items Ascribed to Mary Baker Eddy, p.29)

“No picture of a female in attitude of prayer or in any other attitude shall be made or put into our Church, or any of our buildings with my consent. This is now my request and demand: Do nothing in statuary, in writing, or in action, to perpetuate or immortalize the thought of personal being; but do and illustrate, teach and practice, all that will impersonalize God and His idea man and woman. Whatever I have said in the past relative to impersonation in thought or in figure, I have fully recalled, and my Church cannot contradict me in this statement.”  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, 500 Watching Points, #141)

May God give you the sweet peace and wisdom of imper­sonal love; and there is none other.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Collectanea of Items By and About Mary Baker Eddy, p.119)

Let us begin to understand Jesus directly, in at least one of his sayings, and judge a tree by its fruits.  The good done by Christianity, the sick healed, and the sinner reclaimed, are fruits noteworthy; and shall we call that bearing these fruits, less than the barren creed, the sterile rite, and pharisaical scorn?  Have we faith in God, if our faith is too weak to trust Deity as soon as a drug, and too blind to see that a creed is less than a deed, and that the fruits of Christianity are works more than words?  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Fragments Gathered From Unpublished Items Ascribed to Mary Baker Eddy, p.29)

It is not safe to change oars in the current.  Courage, stand.  When [t]he wind blows the wheat bows its head and does not receive the full blast.  It is the empty kernel that keeps its head up and receives the full blow.   Mary Baker Eddy

(Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p. 278-279)

Strive to work from God, instead of up to God.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Collectanea of Items By and About Mary Baker Eddy, p. 119)

Mrs. Eddy once said, “The Scientists should make error unreal to themselves, that they may make it unreal to others; and sometimes they can do more for others by going by themselves and meditating on spiritual realities.”  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, 500 Watching Points, #368)