God's Perfect Child Quotes

“When in conversation, the animation she displayed added much to her attractiveness. It was the animation of conviction, not of excitement or agitation.123”
― Caroline Fraser, God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church

“that “mind is the only substance.”104 Swedenborg interpreted heaven and hell as personal, almost psychological, states of mind, a concept paralleling Eddy’s later view: “The sinner makes his own hell by doing evil, and the saint his own heaven by doing right.”
― Caroline Fraser, God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church

“His practice of mesmerism had been transformed from a crude magic act to a simple application of psychological reassurance, a kind of medicine that was, by all accounts, including Eddy’s, intensely satisfying to his patients.”
― Caroline Fraser, God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church

“Quimby’s newfound interpretation of the power of suggestion led to his profound distrust of the medical profession, whose members, he felt, were spreading “beliefs” in illness and disease to all their patients.”
― Caroline Fraser, God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church

“The Second Great Awakening made it possible for practically anyone to found a new religion.”
― Caroline Fraser, God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church