"We cannot, of ourselves, perfect a true moral character, but we can accept of Christ's righteousness. We can be partakers of the divine nature, and escape the corruptions that are in the world through lust. Christ has left before us a perfect pattern of what we are to be

"The joy set before Christ, the joy that sustained Him through sacrifice and suffering, was the joy of seeing sinners saved." – Prophets and Kings, 172.

"Jesus loves us. He loves us as His children. Reader, He loves you. Heaven itself can bestow nothing greater, nothing better. Therefore trust." – Desire of Ages, 483

"With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour might be carried to the whole world!" – Education, 271

"None have fallen so low, none are so vile, but that they can find deliverance in Christ." – Desire of Ages, 258.

"By living faith, by earnest prayer to God, and depending upon Jesus’ merits, we are clothed with His righteousness, and we are saved." – Faith and Works, 71.

"Nothing is apparently more helpless, yet really more invincible, than the soul that feels its nothingness and relies wholly on God." – Prophets and Kings, 175.