Comprehensiveness of True Religion - The Saints But Stewards. delivered at Great Salt Lake City, December 5, 1853 pg 334-341

"Can anything be taught that will edify this congregation like the principles of the gospel?" pg 334
"The whole mortal existence of man is neither more nor less than a preparatory state given to finite beings." pg 334
-this life isn't for accumulating stuff, etc. but to grow and to develop and to gain salvation
"It matters not what the subject be, if it tends to improve the mind, exalt the feelings, and enlarge the capacity. The truth that is in in all the arts and sciences forms part of our religion." pg 335
"Were I to lecture on business principles of any kind, our religion embraces it; and what it does not circumscribe, it would be well for us to dispense with at once and forever." pg 335
"How easy it is for their minds to become darkened by the God of this world, and become like the eyes of the fool, which are in the end of the earth, seeking for gold and silver, [etc.]..." pg 335
"If the Later-day Saints have not been schooled enough to realise that all things which partain to this world - riches, honours, [etc.]... are not wholly suservient to their religion, they are not fully skilled in their profession." pg 335
-how many really know where they stand and where and how they need to improve
-do you know spiritual and religous things as well as you do more trivial things? like the plot of a book or movie etc.
-are you after true and lasting treasures or temporary, worldly treasures?
"Who of this congregation can realize for one moment, that the Lord would notice so trifling an affair as the hairs you have combed from your heads this morning Yet it is so, not one hair has fallen to the ground without the notice of our Father in heaven." pg 336
"If we have not yet learned that poverty, sickness, pain, want, disappointment, losses, crosses, or even death, should not move us one hair's breadth from the service of God or separate us from the principles of eternal life, it is a lesson we have to learn." pg 336
-even if you know more than an encyclopedia but you don't know about salvation or building up the Lord's kingdom, you have a lot to learn
"They do not realize they are to be tried in all things." pg 337
-without gratitude, etc., we can harm ourselves thorugh the Lord's blessings
"Mysterious as it may appear to the children of me, God is in and round about all things." pg 337
"Shall we ever see the time we shall be perfectly independant of every other being in all the eternities? No; we shall never see that time." pg 338
"My religion must be with me from Monday morning to the next, year round, or it will not answer me." pg 338
"Let no man judge his fellow being, unless he know he has the mind of Christ within him." pg 339
-money will be of better use helping others than sitting in a bank for "being rich"