Quimby is known as the father of New Thought, practical metaphysics and practical Christianity. His work laid the foundation for such movements as Christian Science, Unity, Religious Science and many more. He believed disease is an error in the mind and could be corrected by the understanding of the right relation between and divine and the human Quimby's philosophy covered certain ideas which enrich life in all ways. Beliefs determine happiness or the lack of it. Beliefs can be changed.
Life responds to our beliefs.
We exist within the One Presence, the One Spirit. We have access to the One. The Quimby Memorial Church is an outgrowth of the Quimby Memorial Church and Foundation of New York City. The Church and Foundation were under the direction of Dr. Ervine Seale. Dr. Seale, a former minister of the Church of the Truth, dedicated his later years to translating and publishing the writings of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby .