True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite with the infinite.

I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.

Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are defective members, that there are tares amid the wheat. . . . Although there are evils existing in the church, and will be until the end of the world, the church in these last days is to be the light of the world that is polluted and demoralized by sin. The church, enfeebled and defective, needing to be reproved, warned, and counseled, is the only object upon earth upon which Christ bestows His supreme regard.