Daily Inspiration Quote by Mary Baker Eddy

Eddy’s line operates like a spiritual pressure valve: it releases the anxiety of “today” by expanding it into the “infinite.” The phrasing is doing quiet, strategic work. “Leaning” suggests fatigue, dependency, even a kind of holy exhaustion. This isn’t triumphant faith; it’s faith as posture, a way to stand up when you can’t muster certainty. By contrast, “sustaining infinite” is deliberately abstract. Eddy avoids naming God in conventional terms, steering the reader toward her Christian Science emphasis on divine Mind and spiritual law rather than a moody, intervening deity. The infinite doesn’t merely exist; it “sustains,” implying a constant, impersonal reliability.

“Today is big with blessings” borrows the cadence of 19th-century uplift while slipping in a subtle provocation: blessings aren’t rare rewards; they’re the default condition, visible only to the correctly oriented consciousness. The subtext is almost diagnostic. If today feels small, barren, or punitive, the problem isn’t the day but what you’re leaning on. Eddy’s theology often reframes suffering as misperception, and this sentence compresses that stance into a single pastoral promise.

Context matters. Eddy built Christian Science in an era of industrial upheaval, fragile public health, and religious competition, when healing and hope were not metaphors but survival strategies. The quote reads as a recruitment pitch and a comfort: align with the infinite, and the ordinary day stops being a threat and starts being an announcement.