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Life with its way before us lies, 
Christ is the path, and Christ 
      the prize.
—John S. B. Monsell, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 59, alt.
The periods of spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind’s creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness—yea, the divine nature—appear in man and the universe never to disappear.
—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 509

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Anthology of classic articles III

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"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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Metaphysics, not physics, enables us to stand erect on sublime heights, surveying the immeasurable universe of Mind, peering into the cause which governs all effects, while we are strong in the unity of God and man.
—Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 369

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. . . I am able to impart truth, health, and happiness, and this is my rock of salvation and my reason for existing.
—Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 165
Divine Science alone can compass the heights and depths of being and reveal the infinite.
—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 292
The Lord’s . . . compassions fail not. They are new every morning.
Lamentations 3:22, 23

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Anthology of classic articles II

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Anthology of classic articles III

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From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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Love giveth to the least spiritual idea might, immortality, and goodness, which shine through all as the blossom shines through the bud.
—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 518
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
I John 1:5
The sapling bends to the breeze, while the sturdy oak, with form and inclination fixed, breasts the tornado. It is easier to incline the early thought rightly, than the biased mind. —Mary Baker Eddy
Christianity causes men to turn naturally from matter to Spirit, as the flower turns from darkness to light.
It matters not what be thy lot, 
           So Love doth guide; 
For storm or shine, pure peace is thine, 
          Whate’er betide. 
                    —Mary Baker Eddy, Poems, p. 79
God made all His creatures free; 
Life itself is liberty.James Montgomery, Christian Science Hymnal, Hymn 83