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If we pray to God as a corporeal person, this will prevent us from relinquishing the human doubts and fears which attend such a belief, and so we cannot grasp the wonders wrought by infinite, incorporeal Love, to whom all things are possible.

— Mary Baker Eddy

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Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

The sick are more deplorably lost than the sinning, if the sick cannot rely on God for help and the sinning can.

Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind.

The atonement requires constant self-immolation on the sinner's part.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

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