"Plain humility is reverence and respect in the presence of the lowest, not the highest, of God's creatures."
"It is not our intention...to place the law of man on a parallel with the law of heaven, because we do not consider that it is formed in the same wisdom and propriety... it is not sufficient in itself to bestow anything on man in comparison with the law of heaven, even should it promise it."
"Sermons, dissertations and arguments by preachers and writers in the Church concerning the Kingdom of God that IS to BE are NOT to be understood as relating to the PRESENT. If they... convey the idea that the dominion to come is to be exercised now, the claim is incorrect."
"It is up to us to decide how much power Satan shall have on this earth, but only in respect to ourselves; the fight is all within us."
"There is only one thing in a man's world that can offer any check on the unlimited power of money- and that is government. That is why money always accuses government of trying to destroy free agency, when the greater enslaver has always been money itself."
Read the entire essay here: http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/transcripts/?id=162
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