Testimonies of Healing

The healings we publish are verified by people who can vouch for the testifier or who know of the healing. Examples of Christian healing from individuals and families around the world have been published in the Christian Science periodicals for well over a century.

The most recently-published testimonies are at the top.

Testimony of Healing

Yielding to God’s power dissolves bump

John Challenger

“When I got myself out of the way and humbly yielded my will to God’s, I was better able to behold the spiritual universe of His creating, and this led to healing.”
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Home and citizenship: Never in limbo

Polly Kimani

“I felt God’s presence and remember thinking to myself, ‘Truly, God is in this room, and whether everyone realizes it or not, this ceremony is a celebration, a sense of homecoming, for all of us.’”

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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Testimony of Healing

Reading Science and Health healed me

Vasti Alves de Oliveira

“It was an extraordinary surprise for me to find out that prayer in Christian Science brought healing. This was wonderful!”

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Prayer restores hearing

Cecilia Carzoglio

“I understood that my hearing is forever intact.”
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No more heart trouble and self-condemnation

Bill Flatley

“I knew that my first step in Christian Science treatment was to dispel fear.” 
Testimony of Healing

A “prayer walk” healing

Florence Savoye

“I kept rejoicing and remembering that I was always walking in the light of God’s love.”

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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Anthology of classic articles II

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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Testimony of Healing

Discovering my friend’s eternal life

Betty Lawrence

“Our thinking can be elevated to the understanding that Life is God, Spirit, never contained in matter and always eternal.”
Testimony of Healing

A spiritual workout

Bobby Lewis

Sometimes it appears that doing something too repetitively can lead to injury or exhaustion.
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Strength and movement restored

Garwin Smith

“This experience of restoration to normal and harmonious action has marked another step along the path of my growing recognition of our God-given freedom from all claims of materiality and mortality.”
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Full recovery after a fall

Celia Heathcote

“It was like a dam had burst, releasing me from a mental state of wallowing in worry about my condition.”
Testimony of Healing

Finding peace frees from pain

John Hoyle

“My healing came when I more fully understood that spiritual forces governed my actions, movements, and thoughts.”
Testimony of Healing

No more cutting remarks

Madora Kibbe

“It’s nice to be funny, but it’s better to be kind—even to those we don’t agree with.”