“Christ often wept but was never known to laugh.  I do not say it is a sin to laugh on any occasion.  But we cannot go astray if we imitate the divine, unerring pattern” (Ms 11, 1868; in 6 MR 91).

“[Satan] hoped that the number who would receive [Jesus] as the Son of God would be so few, that Jesus would consider his sufferings and sacrifice too great to make for so small a company.  But I saw that if there had been but two who would have accepted Jesus as the Son of God, to believe in him to the saving of their souls, he would have carried out the plan” (1 SG 36-37).

“I saw that God had especially guarded the Bible, yet learned men, when the copies were few, had changed the words in some instances, thinking that they were making it more plain, when they were mystifying that which was plain, in causing it to lean to their established views, governed by tradition.  But I saw that the word of God, as a whole, is a perfect chain, one portion of scripture explaining another” (1 SG 117).

“I saw that the slave-master would have to answer for the soul of his slave whom he has kept in ignorance; and all the sins of the slave will be visited upon the master.  God cannot take the slave to heaven, who has been kept in ignorance and degradation, knowing nothing of God, or the Bible, fearing nothing but his master’s lash, and not holding so elevated a position as his master’s brute beasts.  But he does the best thing for him that a compassionate God can do.  He lets him be as though he had not been; while the master has to suffer the seven last plagues, and then come up in the second resurrection, and suffer the second, most awful death” (1 SG 193).

“God has afflicted Bro. E., and removed his wife.  Three times she was reproved by vision, and the third time I was shown if she did not stand out of her husband’s way, that he might be free to teach perishing souls the truth, God would move her out of the way.  It is even so; she sickened and died.  Her passage to the tomb was dark” (2 SG 215).

“Those who feel called out to join the movement in favor of woman’s rights and the so-called dress reform might as well sever all connection with the third angel’s message [Seventh-day Adventism]” (1T 421).

“Life insurance is a worldly policy which leads our brethren who engage in it to depart from the simplicity and purity of the gospel.  Every such departure weakens our faith and lessens our spirituality.  Said the angel: ‘But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light’” (1T 550).

“Phrenology and mesmerism are very much exalted.  They are good in their place, but they are seized upon by Satan as his most powerful agents to destroy and deceive souls” (1T 296).

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