"The elements are eternal, yea, the elements are the tabernacle of
God. Man is the tabernacle of God, even temples."
"The elements are eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably united, receive a fulness of joy [Hence the importance of man's earth life in which spirit is united to earthly elements.]
"If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not
comprehend themselves."
"God Himself was once as we are now; and is an exalted Man; for
Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God."
"The spirit of man is not a created being; it existed from eternity, and will exist to eternity. Anything created cannot be eternal."
"The spirit and the body is the soul of man; and the resurrection from the dead is the redemption of the soul."
"It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the character of God, and to know that we may converse with Him as one man converses with another."
"Jesus was in the beginning with the Father. * * * Man was also in
the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was
not created or made, neither indeed can be."
"Jesus treads in the footsteps of His Father, and inherits what
God did before; and God is thus glorified and exalted in the
salvation and exaltation of all His children."
"The things of God are of deep import; and time and experience and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out. Thy mind, O man, if thou wilt lead a soul unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens and search into and contemplate the darkest abyss and the broad expanse of eternity—thou must commune with God!"