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Rh The more you study the lessons as the word of God speaking to you by the Holy Ghost, and the more you come to believe in direct answers to prayer, the more efficacious will be your teaching by word and example upon the hearts and lives of others. —.

The primary principle of education is the determination of the pupil to self-activity—the doing nothing for him which he is able to do for himself. —.

Be assured, my dear Anne, that it is only by taking our lesson from God and doing the will of God, that we can either please Him in time, or be happy with Him in eternity. —.

Superstition is a senseless fear of God; religion, the pious worship of God.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home. —.

Superstition is but the fear of belief—religion is the confidence.

The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur, and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest sympathies, because they have had the profoundest sorrows. —.