“You who are suffering with poor health, there is a remedy for you. If thou clothe the naked, and bring the poor that are cast out to thy house, and deal thy bread to the hungry, ‘then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily.’  Doing good is an excellent remedy for disease.”  HL:233.6.

 

“When the sick and wretched applied to the Saviour for help, He first relieved the poor, suffering body before He attempted to administer to the darkened mind.  When the present misery of the supplicant was removed, his thoughts could better be directed into the channel of light and truth.”  HL:278.2.

 

“Whoever succors the poor, or sympathizes with the afflicted and oppressed, and befriends the orphan, brings himself into a more close relationship to Jesus.”  RH, August 16, 1881 par. 3.

 

“Don’t be afraid of good works.  ‘Be not weary in well doing, for in due time ye shall reap if ye faint not.’  Do not wait to be told your duty.  Open your eyes, and see who is around you, and make yourselves acquainted with the helpless, afflicted, and needy. Hide not yourselves from them; close not your eyes to their needs.”  RH, August 16, 1881 par. 10.

 

“Read Isaiah 58, you who claim to be children of the light.  Especially do you read it again and again who have felt so fearful to inconvenience yourselves by favoring the needy; you whose hearts and houses are too narrow to make a home for the homeless, read it.  You who can see orphans and widows oppressed by the iron hand of poverty, and bowed down by the hard-hearted worldlings, read it.”  RH, August 16, 1881 par. 20.

 

“Skillful teachers should show the people how to utilize to the very best advantage the products that they can raise or secure in their section of the country.  Thus the poor, as well as those in better circumstances, can learn to live healthfully. . . It is the Lord’s design that in every place men and women shall be encouraged to develop their talents by preparing healthful foods from the natural products of their own section of the country.  If they look to God, exercising their skill and ingenuity under the guidance of His Spirit, they will learn how to prepare natural products into healthful foods.  Thus they will be able to teach the poor how to provide themselves with foods that will take the place of flesh-meats.  Those thus helped can in turn instruct others.  Such a work will yet be done with consecrated zeal and energy.  If it had been done before, there would today be many more people in the truth, and many more who could give instruction.  Let us learn what our duty is, and then do it.  We are not to be dependent and helpless, waiting for others to do the work that God has committed to us.”  TSDF:24.3.