Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not

Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'

Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles