Christian sisters should not at any time dress extravagantly, but at all times dress as neat, modest, and healthful, as their work will allow.
Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.
The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.
Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.
God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.
Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.
The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.
Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.
It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.
The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.
Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.
A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.
The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.
Grace, like an angel of mercy, makes his voice heard sweet and clear, repeating the story of the cross, the matchless love of Jesus.
