Pathway: Loving Partnership

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love, not hate

“I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error.” -Mary Baker Eddy

“I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error.” – Mary Baker Eddy

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a loving relationship

“Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.” -Mary Baker Eddy

“Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.” – Mary Baker Eddy

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Doing unto others

“Doing unto others as we would that they do by us, is immortality's self. Intrepid, self-oblivious love fulfils the law and is self-sustaining and eternal.” -Mary Baker Eddy

“Doing unto others as we would that they do by us, is immortality’s self. Intrepid, self-oblivious love fulfils the law and is self-sustaining and eternal.” – Mary Baker Eddy

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spiritual ideas and relationships

“Pure humanity, friendship, home, the interchange of love, bring to earth a foretaste of heaven. They unite terrestrial and celestial joys, and crown them with blessings infinite.” -Mary Baker Eddy

“Pure humanity, friendship, home, the interchange of love, bring to earth a foretaste of heaven. They unite terrestrial and celestial joys, and crown them with blessings infinite.” – Mary Baker Eddy

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spiritual character

“Kindred tastes, motives, and aspirations are necessary to the formation of a happy and permanent companionship. The beautiful in character is also the good, welding indissolubly the links of affection.” -Mary Baker Eddy

“Kindred tastes, motives, and aspirations are necessary to the formation of a happy and permanent companionship. The beautiful in character is also the good, welding indissolubly the links of affection.”– Mary Baker Eddy

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spiritual relationships

“…doing unto others as ye would they should do unto you, conquers all opposition, surmounts all obstacles, and secures success.”  -Mary Baker Eddy

“…doing unto others as ye would they should do unto you, conquers all opposition, surmounts all obstacles, and secures success.”

-Mary Baker Eddy

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spiritual affection

“As a human quality, the glorious significance of affection is more than words: it is the tender, unselfish deed done in secret; the silent, ceaseless prayer; the self-forgetful heart that overflows; the veiled form stealing on an errand of mercy, out of a side door;…” -Mary Baker Eddy

“As a human quality, the glorious significance of affection is more than words: it is the tender, unselfish deed done in secret; the silent, ceaseless prayer; the self-forgetful heart that overflows; the veiled form stealing on an errand of mercy, out of a side door;…”

-Mary Baker Eddy

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spiritual relationship quote

“Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon its object. One marvels that a friend can ever seem less than beautiful.”  -Mary Baker Eddy

“Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon its object. One marvels that a friend can ever seem less than beautiful.”

-Mary Baker Eddy

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selfless love

“…blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.” -Mary Baker Eddy “…blessed is that man who seeth his brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another’s good.” – Mary Baker Eddy

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loving relationships

“Be faithful over home relations; they lead to higher joys: obey the Golden Rule for human life, and it will spare you much bitterness.” -Mary Baker Eddy

“Be faithful over home relations; they lead to higher joys: obey the Golden Rule for human life, and it will spare you much bitterness.” – Mary Baker Eddy

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