Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.