The Lord's hand in in our lives; if we will but feel for it, in the darkness, we can grasp it and be lifted thereby.

Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to works. Faith in Christ comprises belief in Him, combined with trust in Him. One cannot have faith without belief; yet he may believe and still lack faith. Faith is vivified, vitalized, living belief.

Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.

No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.

Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.

Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.

We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an individual existence beyond the grave, is a declaration that there must have been an individual, intelligent creation before we came here in the flesh. Life beyond the grave postulates a pre-existent state.