Mary Baker Eddy · 709 pages
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“To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.”
“Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.”
“Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.”
“To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.”
“The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.”
“Give to it the place in our institutions of learning now occupied by scholastic theology and physiology, and it will 142 eradicate sickness and sin in less time than the old systems, devised for subduing them, have required for self-establishment and propagation.”
“There is too much animal courage in society and not 29 sufficient moral courage. Christians”
“It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood”
“When flowing water...meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it...
Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do not attempt to push ahead into the danger... emulate the example of the water: Pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer represents a blockage.”
“In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.”
“Benjamin started; an almost chemical change seemed to dissolve and recompose the very elements of his body. A rigour passed over him, blood rose into his cheeks, his forehead, and there was a steady thumping in his ears. It was first love.”
“And Teddy worried lots about
The fact that he was rather stout.
He thought: "If only I were thin!
But how does anyone begin?”
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