Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
Youth without beauty is half a prize.
It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.
Talents used are talents multiplied.
Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.
Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.
God Himself was crucified with Christ, for Christ was one with the Father.
It is Satan’s constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. At the same time he causes them to cherish false conceptions of God so that they regard Him with fear and hate rather than with love. The cruelty inherent in his own character is attributed to the Creator; it is embodied in systems of religion and expressed in modes of worship.
False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight of, and darkness, like the pall of death, may spread over the world; the whole force of the popular current may be formed to overthrow the people of God; but in the hour of greatest peril the God of Elijah will raise up human instrumentalities to bear a message that will not be silenced.
The grace of Christ in the soul is developing traits of character that are the opposite of selfishness – traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life.
And only as we love God supremely is it possible to love our neighbor impartially.
Christ is a “tried stone.” Those who trust in Him, He never disappoints.
In all your temporal concerns, in all your cares and anxieties, wait upon the Lord.
Those who are quick to censure others, who speak words that cut and bruise the already wounded soul, are doing Satan’s work, and are laborers with the prince of darkness...
Let the youth remember that here they are to build characters for eternity, and that God requires them to do their best. Let those older in experience watch over the younger ones; and when they see them tempted, take them aside, and pray with them and for them.
The very act of looking for evil in others develops evil in those who look. By dwelling upon the faults of others, we are changed into the same image.
Now when you can no longer be active, and infirmities press upon you, all that God requires of you is to trust Him. Commit.
Christians who live for self dishonor their Redeemer.
At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of divine grace.
They brought ruin upon themselves by refusing to minister to others.