Top 100 Ellen G. White Quotes
#1. Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life. - Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey
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#2. There shall be no more sin, neither shall there beany more death.
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#3. Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.
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#4. It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.
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#5. We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
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#6. The stomach, liver, lungs and brain are suffering for want of deep, full inspirations of air which would electrify the blood and impart to it a bright, lively color, and which alone can keep it pure, and give tone and vigor to every part of the living machinery.
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#7. We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.
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#9. It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.
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#10. Advice to a Separated Couple - My brother, my sister, for some time you have not been living together. You should not have pursued this course and would not have done so if both of you had been cultivating the patience, kindness, and forbearance that should ever exist between husband and wife.
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#11. When the character is lacking in purity, when sin has become a part of the character, it has a bewitching power that is equal to the intoxicating glass of liquor.
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#12. The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.
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#13. Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken! Habakkuk 2:15.
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#14. Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
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#15. time - that true happiness is found, not in the indulgence of pride and luxury, but in communion with God through his created works.
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#16. Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.
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#17. The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.
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#18. As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God.
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#19. Thus Esau despised his birthright. In disposing of it he felt a sense of relief. Now his way was unobstructed; he could do as he liked. For this wild pleasure, miscalled freedom, how many are still selling their birthright to an inheritance
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#20. In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.
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#21. I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.
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#22. And those who cherished the fear of God and lived in harmony with his will continued to increase in knowledge and wisdom throughout their life.
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#23. By resting content with small blessings, we disqualify ourselves for receiving the Spirit in ... unlimited fullness. We
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#25. Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.
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#26. Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as though you knew that the eye of heaven is upon you, and that you are living under the approbation or disapprobation of God.
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#27. God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.
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#29. Our Saviour identifies His interest with that of suffering humanity. As
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#30. In the time of trouble just before the coming of Christ, the righteous will be preserved through the ministration of heavenly angels; but there will be no security for the transgressor of God's law. Angels cannot then protect those who are disregarding one of the divine precepts. [257]
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#32. Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.
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#33. What means has God to communicate His will to men, unless it be through His delegated messengers?
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#34. When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and directness with which the church is to prosecute her work.
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#35. When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son. Providence
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#36. We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.
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#37. It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.
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#38. For what was the great controversy permitted to continue throughout the ages? Why was it that Satan's existence was not cut short at the outset of his rebellion? It was that the universe might be convinced of God's justice in His dealing with evil; that sin might receive eternal condemnation.
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#39. By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.
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#40. Moderate exercise every day will impart strength to the muscles, which without exercise become flabby and enfeebled.
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#41. If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.
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#42. Christ is a "tried stone." Those who trust in Him, He never disappoints.
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#43. God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
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#44. Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.
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#46. If physical exercise were combined with mental exertion, the blood would be quickened in its circulation, the action of the heart would be more perfect, impure matter would be thrown off, and new life and vigor would be experienced in every part of the body.
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#47. Was the human nature of the Son of Mary changed into the divine nature of the Son of God? No; the two natures were mysteriously blended in one person - the man Christ Jesus. In
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#48. Many are to believe on Christ through the communication of truth by His servants. As they see the beauty of the Word of God, and as they see Jesus revealed in the lives of His children, they will praise Him with heart and soul and voice.
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#49. There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves.
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#50. Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.
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#51. We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.
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#52. 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.
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#53. Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
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#54. The lessons of the Bible have a moral and religious influence on the character, as they are brought into the practical life. Timothy
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#55. Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.
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#56. In all your temporal concerns, in all your cares and anxieties, wait upon the Lord.
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#57. The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
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#58. No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.
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#59. Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.
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#60. I should not want to live unless I could live to do some good to others.
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#61. The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.
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#62. The Lord Jesus loves His people, and when they put their trust in Him, depending wholly upon Him, He strengthens them. He will live through them, giving them the inspiration of His sanctifying Spirit, imparting to the soul a vital transfusion of Himself. - Sabbath School Worker, February 1, 1896.
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#63. A character formed according to the divine likeness is the only treasure that we can take from this world to the next.
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#64. It was on the earth that the love of God was revealed through Christ. It is on the earth that His children are to reflect this love through blameless lives. Thus
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#65. A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.
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#66. There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.
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#67. 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.
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#68. If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.
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#69. Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.
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#70. All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
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#71. Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence.
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#72. We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in countries where there are fruits, grains, and nuts in abundance, flesh food is not the right food for God's people.
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#73. Our neighbors are not merely our associates and special friends; they are not simply those who belong to our church, or who think as we do. Our neighbors are the whole human family. We
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#74. Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.
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#75. Higher education means conformity to the terms of salvation. It embraces the experience of daily looking unto Jesus, and of working together with Christ for the saving of the perishing.
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#76. At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of divine grace.
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#77. That so-called faith in Christ which professes to release men from the obligation of obedience to God, is not faith, but presumption. "By grace are ye saved through faith." But "faith, if it hath not works, is dead." Ephesians 2:8; James 2:17.
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#78. The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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#79. True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.
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#80. Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
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#81. As the flower turns to the sun, that the bright beams may aid in perfecting its beauty and symmetry, so should we turn to the Sun of Righteousness, that Heaven's light may shine upon us, that our character may be developed in to the likeness of Christ.
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#82. O that you would realize that each moment is golden.
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#83. The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.
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#84. Among earth's inhabitants, scattered in every land, there are those who have not bowed the knee to Baal. Like the stars of heaven, which appear only at night, these faithful ones will shine forth when darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people.
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#85. Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.
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#86. The patchwork religion is not of the least value with God. He requires the whole heart.
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#88. Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.
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#90. In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the air which circulates around the globe. All who chose to breathe this life-giving atmosphere will live and grow up to the stature of men and women in Christ Jesus.
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#91. Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities under the control of the higher powers, and to discern between right and wrong, the sacred and the common.
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#92. God designed that the living machinery should be in daily activity. For in this activity or motion is its preserving power ... The more we exercise, the better will be the circulation of the blood.
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#93. All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.
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#94. The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character and love. The children of God are to manifest His glory. In their own life and character they are to reveal what the grace of God has done for them.
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#95. That your mind is clouded is no evidence that Christ is not your precious Saviour.
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#96. The world, though fallen, is not all sorrow and misery. In nature itself are messages of hope and comfort.
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#97. God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.
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#98. Prejudice is even stronger in the hearts of men now than in Christ's day.
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#99. If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
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#100. God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots, not one here and one there, but a people. The truth is a sanctifying power, but the church militant is not yet the church triumphant ...
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