It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and wellbeing, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfiling the law of Christ.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away

We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.