* The only hope of better things is in the education of the people in right

principles. Let physicians teach the people that restorative power is not in drugs,
but in nature. Disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions
that result from a violation of the laws of health. In case of sickness, the cause
should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits
corrected. Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to
re-establish right conditions in the system. Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness,
rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in divine power; these are the
true remedies. {MH, p. 127}

* Flesh was never the best food; but its use is doubtly objectionable, since
disease in animals is so rapidly increasing. {Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 384.2}

* Soon butter will never be recommended, and after a time, milk will be entirely
discarded, for disease in animals is increasing in proportion to the increase of
wickedness among men. The time will come when there will be no safety in using
eggs, milk, cream or butter. {MR vol. 8, Letter 14, 1901 p. 3}

* The combination of milk and sugar raises cholesterol, triglycerides, and sugar
levels in the body for about 10hrs. People can actually die, if you have heart
problems, from this combination. - Walter Veith

* Milk and sugar eaten together are injurious. They impart impurities to the
system. Sugar clogs the system. It hinders the living machine. {2T, pp. 368,369}

* Cheese is still more objectionable; it is wholly unfit for food. {MH, p. 302.1}

* Cheese should never be introduced into the stomach. {Counsels on Diet and Foods
p. 368.4}

* Tea and coffee drinking is a sin, an injurious indulgence, which, like other
evils, injures the soul. These darling idols create an excitement, a morbid action
of the nervous system. {Counsels on Diets and Foods, p. 425}

* Those who indulge a perverted appetite, do it to the injury of health and

intellect. They can not appreciate the value of spiritual things. Their
sensibilities are blunted, and sin does not appear very sinful, and truth is not
regarded of greater value than earthly treasure. {Spiritual Gifts vol. 4a, p. 129}

* Let them preserve the health and increase the strength by avoiding the large
amount of cooking which has filled the world with chronic invalids. We are coming
to the time when recipes for cooking will not be needed, for God's people will
learn that the food God gave Adam in his sinless state is the best for keeping the
body in a sinless state. {MR vol. 21, p. 286}

* God requires continual advancement from His people. They need to learn that
indulged appetite is the greatest hindrance to mental improvement and soul
sanctification. {RH, Feb. 2, 1910}

* The ethics inculcated by the gospel acknowledge no standard but the perfection of
God's mind, God's will. God requires from His creatures comformity to His will.
Imperfection of character is sin, and sin is the transgression of the law. All
righteous attributes of character dwell in God as a perfect, harmonious whole. All
those who receive Christ as their personal Savior are priviledged to posses these
attributes. This is the science of holiness. {ST, Sept. 3, 1902}

* If you had made God's word your study, with a desire to reach the Bible standard
and attain to Christian perfection, you would not have needed the Testimonies.
The Lord designs to warn you, to reprove, to counsel, through the testimonies
given, and to impress your minds with the importance of the truth of His word. The
written testimonies are not to give new light, but to impress vividly upon the
heart the truths of inspiration already revealed. {5T, pp. 664.3, 665.1}

* The tempter's agency is not to be accounted an excuse for one wrong act. Satan is
jubilant when he hears the professed followers of Christ making excuses for their
further deformity of character. It is these excuses that lead to sin. There is no
excuse for sinning. A holy temper, a Christlike life, is accessible to every
repenting, believing child of God. {DA, p. 311.3}

* The Savior took upon Himself the infirmities of humanity and lived a sinless
life, that men might have no fear that because of weakness of human nature they
could not overcome. Christ came to make us "partakers of the divine nature", and
His life declares that humanity, combined with divinity, does not commit sin. {MH,
p. 180}

* Not one of us will ever receive the seal of God while our characters have one
spot or stain upon them. It is left with us to remedy the defects in our
characters, to cleanse the soul temple of every defilement. Then the latter rain
will fall upon us as the early rain fell upon the disciples on the Day of
Pentecost. {5T, p. 214.2}

* I saw that many were neglecting the preparation so needful and were looking to
the time of "refreshing" and the "latter rain" to fit them to stand in the day of
the Lord and to live in His sight. Oh, how many I saw in the time of trouble
without a shelter! They had neglected the needful preparation; therefore they could
not receive the refreshing that all must have to fit them to live in the sight of a
holy God. Those who refuse to be hewed by the prophets and fail to purify their
souls in obeying the whole truth, and who are willing to believe that their
condition is far better than it really is, will come up to the time of the falling
of the plagues, and then see that they needed to be hewed and squared for the
building. But there will be no time then to do it and no Mediator to plead their
cause before the Father. Before this time the awfully solemn declaration has gone
forth, "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him
be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that
is holy, let him be holy still." I saw that none could share the "refreshing"
unless they obtain the victory over every besetment, over pride, selfishness, love
of the world, and over every wrong word and action. We should, therefore, be
drawing nearer and nearer to the Lord and be earnestly seeking that preparation
necessary to enable us to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord. Let all
remember that God is holy and that none but holy beings can ever dwell in His
presence. {Early Writings, p. 71.2}

* When He leaves the sanctuary, darkness covers the inhabitants of the earth. In
that fearful time the righteous must live in the sight of a holy God without an
intercessor. The restraint which has been upon the wicked is removed, and Satan has
entire control of the finally impenitent. God's long-suffering has ended. The world
has rejected His mercy, despised His love, and trampled upon His Law. The wicked
have passed the boundary of their probation; the Spirit of God, persistently
resisted, has been at last withdrawn. Unsheltered by divine grace, they have no
protection from the wicked one. Satan will then plunge the inhabitants of the earth
into one great, final trouble. As the angels of God cease to hold in check the
fierce winds of human passion, all the elements of strife will be let loose. The
whole world will be involved in ruin more terrible than that which came upon
Jerusalem of old. {CG, 1888 p. 614.1}

* Many are unable to make definite plans for the future. Their life is unsettled.
They cannot discern the outcome of affairs, and this often fills them with anxiety
and unrest. Let us remember that the life of God's children in this world is a
pilgrim life. We have not wisdom to plan our own lives. It is not for us to shape
our future. "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he
should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing
whither he went." Hebrews 11:8.
Christ in His life on earth made no plans for Himself. He accepted God's plans for
Him, and day by day the Father unfolded His plans. So should we depend upon God,
that our lives may be the simple outworking of His will. As we commit our ways to
Him, He will direct our steps.
Too many, in planning for a brilliant future, make an utter failure. Let God plan
for you. As a little child, trust to the guidance of Him who will "keep the feet of
His saints." 1 Samuel 2:9. God never leads His children otherwise than they would
choose to be led, if they could see the end from the beginning and discern the
glory of the purpose which they are fulfilling as co-workers with Him. {MH, p. 478-
479}

* It is not wise to look to ourselves and study our emotions. If we do this, the
enemy will present difficulties and temptations that weaken faith and destroy
courage. Closely to study our emotions and give way to our feelings is to entertain
doubt and entangle ourselves in perplexity. We are to look away from self to Jesus.
{MH, p. 249.5}

* Self is the enemy we most need to fear. No form of vice has a more baleful effect
upon the character than has human passion not under the control of the Holy Spirit.
No other victory we can gain will be so precious as the victory gained over self.
We should not allow our feelings to be easily wounded. We are to live, not to guard
our feelings or our reputation, but to save souls. {MH, p. 485}

* Those who realize their own deficiencies will spare no pains to reach the highest
possible standard of physical, mental, and moral excellence. {Special Testimonies
on Education, p. 49,50}

* The difficulties we have to encounter may be very much lessened by that meekness
which hides itself in Christ. If we possess the humility of our Master, we shall
rise above the slights, the rebuffs, the annoyances, to which we are daily exposed,
and they will cease to cast a gloom over the spirit. {DA, p. 301.3}

* The ways of the Lord are obscure to him who desires to see things in a light
pleasing to himself. They appear dark and joyless to our human nature. But God's
ways are ways of mercy and the end is salvation. {DA, p. 301.1}

* The hidden wisdom, which is Christ formed within, the hope of glory, is a wisdom
high as heaven. {RH, July 18, 1899}

* The mind gains strength, breadth, and acuteness by activity. It must be made to
work, or it will grow weak. It must be trained to think, to think habitually, or it
will in a great measure lose its power to think. Let the mind wrestle with the
difficult problems in the word of God, and the intellect will be thoroughly
awakened to bring forth, not inferior discourses, but those that will be fresh and
edifying; and these will be presented in the fervor of an active mind. {RH, Dec. 8,
1885}

* There is something for everyone to do in this world of ours. The Lord is coming,
and our waiting is to be not a time of idle expectation, but of vigilant work. We
are not to spend our time wholly in prayerful meditation, neither are we to drive
and hurry and work as if this were required in order that we should gain heaven,
while neglecting to devote time to the cultivation of personal piety. There must be
a combination of meditation and diligent work. As God has expressed it in His Word,
we are to be "not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord."
Worldly activities are not to crowd out the service of the Lord. The soul needs the
riches of the grace of God, and the body needs physical exercise, in order to
accomplish the work that must be done for the promulgation of the gospel of Christ.
{The Home Missionary, Oct. 1894}

* I have not been able to find one instance where He educated His disciples to
engage in amusements of football or pugilistic games to obtain physical exercise,
or in theatrical performances, and yet Christ was our pattern in all things.
{Special Testimonies on Education, p. 192}

* Some of the most popular amusements, such as football and boxing, have become
schools of brutality. They are developing the same characteristics as did the games
of ancient Rome. The love of domination, the pride in mere brute force, the
reckless disregard of life, are exerting upon the youth a power to demoralize that
is appalling.
Other athletic games, though not so brutalizing, are scarcely less objectionable
because of the excess to which they are carried. They stimulate the love of
pleasure and excitement, thus fostering a distaste for useful labor, a disposition
to shun practical duties and responsibilities. {Education, p. 210}

* The highest of all sciences is the science of soul saving. The greatest work to
which human beings can aspire is the work to winning men from sin to holiness. {MH,
p. 225}

* How little you know about the bearing of your daily acts upon the history of
others...The words and actions looked upon as so unimportant and so small, are
links in the long chain of human events. {RH, June 12 1886 par. 12}

*God has called His church in this day, as He called ancient Israel, to stand as a
light in the earth. By the mighty cleaver of truth�the messages of the first,
second, and third angels�He has separated them from the churches and from the world
to bring them into a sacred nearness to Himself. He has made them the depositaries
of His law and has committed to them the great truths of prophecy for this time.
Like the holy oracles committed to ancient Israel, these are a sacred trust to be
communicated to the world. {Counsels for the Church, p. 58.4}

*Seventh-day Adventists have been chosen by God as a peculiar people, separate from
the world. By the great cleaver of truth He has cut them out from the quarry of the
world and brought them into connection with Himself. He has made them His
representatives and has called them to be ambassadors for Him in the last work of
salvation. The greatest wealth of truth ever entrusted to mortals, the most solemn
and fearful warnings ever sent by God to man, have been committed to them to be
given to the world. {7T, p. 138}

* In a special sense Seventh-day Adventists have been set in the world as watchmen
and light bearers. To them has been entrusted the last warning for a perishing
world. On them is shining wonderful light from the word of God. They have been
given a work of the most solemn import, the proclamation of the first, second, and
third angels' messages. There is no other work of so great importance. They are to
allow nothing else to absorb their attention.
The most solemn truths ever entrusted to mortals have been given us to proclaim to
the world. The proclamation of these truths is to be our work. The world is to be
warned, and God's people are to be true to the trust committed to them. They are
not to engage in speculation, neither are they to enter into business enterprises
with unbelievers; for this would hinder them in their God-given work. {9T, p. 19}

* The message we bear must be as direct as was the message of John [The Baptist].
He rebuked kings for their iniquity. He rebuked the adultery of Herod.
Notwithstanding his life was in peril, the truth did not languish upon his lips.
And our work in this age must be as faithfully done. The inhabitants of the world
at this time are represented by the dwellers upon the earth at the time of the
Flood. The wickedness of the inhabitants of the old world is plainly stated: "And
God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" {SM Book 2, p.
151}

* The Roman Church now presents a fair front to the world, covering with apologies
her record of horrible cruelties. She has clothed herself in Christlike garments;
but she is unchanged. Every principle of the papacy that existed in past ages
exists today. The doctrines devised in the darkest ages are still held. Let none
deceive themselves. The papacy that Protestants are now so ready to honor is the
same that ruled the world in the days of the Reformation, when men of God stood up,
at the peril of their lives, to expose her iniquity. She possesses the same pride
and arrogant assumption that lorded it over kings and princes, and claimed the
prerogatives of God. Her spirit is no less cruel and despotic now than when she
crushed out human liberty and slew the saints of the Most High.
The papacy is just what prophecy declared that she would be, the apostasy of the
latter times. 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4. It is a part of her policy to assume the
character which will best accomplish her purpose; but beneath the variable
appearance of the chameleon she conceals the invariable venom of the serpent.
"Faith ought not to be kept with heretics, nor persons suspected of heresy"
(Lenfant, volume 1, page 516), she declares. Shall this power, whose record for a
thousand years is written in the blood of the saints, be now acknowledged as a part
of the church of Christ?
It is not without reason that the claim has been put forth in Protestant countries
that Catholicism differs less widely from Protestantism than in former times. There
has been a change; but the change is not in the papacy. Catholicism indeed
resembles much of the Protestantism that now exists, because Protestantism has so
greatly degenerated since the days of the Reformers.
As the Protestant churches have been seeking the favor of the world, false charity
has blinded their eyes. {GC, p. 571}

* When Protestant America shall unite with the secular power to sustain a false
religion, for opposing which their ancestors endured the fiercest persecution; when
the state shall use its power to enforce the decrees and sustain the institutions
of the church, then will Prostestant America have formed an image to the papacy,
and there will be a national apostasy which will end only in national ruin. {ST,
March 22, 1910}

* Those who stand under the bloodstained banner of Prince Emmanuel cannot be united
with the Freemasons or with any secret organization. The seal of the living God
will not be placed upon anyone who maintains any connection after the light of
truth has shone upon the pathway. Christ is not divided, and Christians cannot
serve God and mammon. {SM Book 2, p. 140.1}

* Much of the matter I had read related to the [Australian] Echo Office and its
management from the beginning. The Lord also revealed to me Brother Faulkhead's
connection with the Freemasons, and I plainly stated that unless he severed every
tie that bound him to these associations he would lose his soul. {3SM p. 85.3}

* Now the prophet declares that the stranger who will love and obey God shall enjoy
the privileges that have belonged exclusively to the chosen people. Hitherto,
circumcision and a strict observance of the ceremonial law had been the conditions
upon which Gentiles could be admitted to the congregation of Israel; but these
distinctions were to be abolished by the gospel. {ST, Feb. 28, 1884}

* The system of types that pointed to Jesus as the Lamb of God was to be abolished
at His death; but the precepts of the Decalogue are as inmutable as the throne of
God. {DA, p. 308.3}
* Some have limited views of the atonement. They think that Christ suffered only a
small portion of the penalty of the law of God; they suppose that, while the wrath
of God was felt by His dear Son, He had, through all His painful sufferings, the
evidence of His Father's love and acceptance; that the portals of the tomb before
Him were illuminated with bright hope, and that He had the abiding evidence of His
future glory. Here is a great mistake. Christ's keenest anguish was a sense of His
Father's displeasure. His mental agony because of this was of such intensity that
man can have but faint conception of it. {2T, pp. 212-213}

* The very same Jesus, who, veiled in the cloudy pillar, led the Hebrew hosts, is
our leader. {ST, March 3, 1881}

* The principles of the ten commandments existed before the fall, and were of a
character suited to the condition of a holy order of beings. After the fall, the
principles of those precepts were not changed, but additional precepts were given
to meet man in his fallen state. {Spiritual Gifts vol. 3, p. 295}

* Worded to meet fallen intelligences, The law of Jehovah dating back to creation,
was comprised in the two great principles, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
strength. This is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this: Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than
these." These two great principles embrace the first four commandments, showing the
duty of man to God, and the last six, showing the duty of man to his fellowman. The
principles were more explicitly stated to man after the fall, and worded to meet
the case of fallen intelligences. This was necessary in consequence of the minds of
men being blinded by transgression. {ST, April 15, 1875}

* The law of God existed before the creation of man or else Adam could not have
sinned. After the transgression of Adam the principles of the law were not changed,
but were definitely arranged and expressed to meet man in his fallen condition.
Christ, in counsel with His Father, instituted the system of sacrificial offerings;
that death, instead of being immediately visited upon the transgressor, should be
transferred to a victim which should prefigure the great and perfect offering of
the Son of God. {ST, March 14, 1878}

* The truth is the truth. It is not to be wrapped up in beautiful adornings, that

the outside appearance may be admired. The teacher is to make the truth clear and
forcible to the understanding and to the conscience. {RH, April 20, 1897}

* Why is it that the Word of God is uninsteresting to many professed

Christians?...spritual things are spiritually discerned, and the reason of your
lack of interest is that you lack the Spirit of God. {RH, Nov 24, 1891}

* Do not trust to the wisdom of any person, or to the investigations of any person.
Go to the Scriptures for yourselves, search the inspired Word with humble hearts,
lay aside your preconceived opinions; for you will obtain no benefit unless you
come as children to the Word of God. You should say, "If God has anything for me, I
want it. If God has given evidence from His Word to this or that person that a
certain thing is truth, He will give it to me. I can find that evidence if I search
the Scriptures with constant prayer, and I can know that I do know what is
truth." ...The time is coming when we shall be separated and scattered, and each
one of us will have to stand without the privilege of communion with those of like
precious faith; and how can you stand unless God is by your side, and you know that
He is leading and guiding you? {RH, Mar. 25, 1890}

* We must search the Scriptures for ourselves, so that we shall not be led astray;
and while many may be led astray because there are all kinds of doctrines in our
world, there is one truth. Many may come to you and tell you that they have the
truth, but it is your privilege to search the Scriptures for yourself. "To the law
and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there
is no light in them." We must be acquainted with the Scriptures ourselves, that we
may understand the true reason of the hope that is within us. {RH, Apr. 3, 1888}

* I saw that God had especially guarded the Bible, yet when copies of it were few,
learned men had in some instances changed the words, thinking that they were making
it more plain, when in reality they were mystifying that which was plain, by
causing it to lean to their established views, which were governed by tradition.
But I saw that the Word of God, as a whole, is a perfect chain, one portion linking
into and explaining another. True seekers for truth need not err; for not only is
the Word of God plain and simple in declaring the way of life, but the Holy Spirit
is given as a guide in understanding the way to life therein revealed. {Spiritual
Gifts vol. 1, p. 116-117}

*The nature of the Holy Spirit is a mystery. Men cannot explain it, because the
Lord has not revealed it to them. Men having fanciful views may bring together
passages of Scripture and put a human construction on them, but the acceptance of
these views will not strengthen the church. Regarding such mysteries, which are too
deep for human understanding, silence is golden. {AA, 52.1}

* When we permit our communion with God to be broken, our defense is departed from
us...You must be men and women of prayer. Your petitions must not be faint,
occasional, and fitful, but earnest, persevering, and constant. {MH, p. 510}

* Take the word of Christ as your assurance. Has He not invited you to come unto
Him? Never allow yourself to talk in a hopeless, discouraged way. If you do, you
will lose much. By looking at appearances, and complaining when difficulties and
pressure come, you give evidence of a sickly, enfeebled faith. Talk and act as if
your faith was invincible. The Lord is rich in resources; He owns the world. Look
heavenward in faith. Look to Him who has light and power and efficiency. {Christ's
Object Lessons, 146, 147 (1900)}

* Never let your courage fail. Never talk unbelief because appearances are against
you. As you work for the Master you will feel pressure for want of means, but the
Lord will hear and answer your petitions for help. Let your language be: "The Lord
God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face
like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed." Isaiah 50:7. {Testimonies
for the Church 7:244 (1902)}

* Let us be hopeful and courageous. Despondency in God's service is sinful and

unreasonable. He knows our every necessity. He has all power. He can bestow upon
His servants the measure of efficiency that their need demands. {Testimonies for
the Church 8:38 (1904)}

* Be strong, and talk hope. Press your way through obstacles. You are in spiritual
wedlock with Jesus Christ. The word is your assurance. Approach your Saviour with
the full confidence of living faith, joining your hands with His. Go where He leads
the way. Whatsoever He says to you, do. He will teach you just as willingly as He
will teach someone else. {Testimonies for the Church 6:462 (1900)}

* Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their
work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our
inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our
means of doing good will never be exhausted. We may draw upon His fullness, and
receive of that grace which has no limit. {Gospel Workers, 19 (1915)}

* In your business, in companionship for leisure hours, and in alliance for life,
let all the associations you form be entered upon with earnest, humble prayer. {MH,
p. 513}

* It is not correct to say, as many writers have said, that Christ was like all
children. He was not like all children. Many children are misguided and
mismanaged...Jesus was instructed in accordance with the sacred character of His
mission. His inclination to right was a constant gratification to His parents.
{Youth's Instructor, Sep. 8 1898}

* All the miracles of Christ performed for the afflicted and suffering were, by the
power of God, through the ministration of angels. Christ condescended to take
humanity, and thus he unites his interests with the fallen sons and daughters of
Adam here below, while his divinity grasps the throne of God. And thus Christ opens
the communication of man with God, and God with man. All the blessings from God to
man are through the ministration of holy angels. {RH, Jan 21, 1873, par. 16}

* The education centering in the family was that which prevailed in the days of the
patriarchs. For the schools thus established, God provided the conditions most
favorable for the development of character. The people who were under His direction
still pursued the plan of life that He had appointed in the beginning. Those who
departed from God built for themselves cities, and, congregating in them, gloried
in the splendor, the luxury, and the vice that make the cities of today the world�s
pride and its curse. But the men who held fast God�s principles of life dwelt among
the fields and hills. They were tillers of the soil and keepers of the flocks and
herds, and in this free, independent life, with its opportunities for labor and
study and meditation, they learned of God and taught their children of His works
and ways. {Education p. 33-34}

* It is really not wise to have children now. Time is shirt, the perils of the last
days are upon us, and the little children will be largely swept off before this. If
men and women who can work for God would consider tht while they are pleasing
themselves in having little children and caring for them, they might be at work
teaching the way of salvation to large numbers and bringing many sons and daughters
to Christ, great would be their reward in the kingdom of God. {Daughters of God
140.2}

* I repeat, Do not enter into a marriage engagement unless there are good and
sufficient reasons for this step,�unless the work of God can be better advanced
thereby. For Christ's sake deny inclination, lift the cross, and do the work for
which you are educating yourselves. {PH048 28.3}

* Many of the marriages contracted in these last days prove to be a mistake. The
parties make no advancement in spiritual things; their growth and usefulness ended
with their marriage. There are men and women throughout the country who would have
been accepted as laborers together with God if Satan had not laid his snares to
entangle their minds and hearts in courtship and marriage. Did the Lord urge them
to obtain the advantages of our schools and missions that they might sink
everything in courtship and marriage, binding themselves by a human band for a
lifetime? {PH048 28.4}

* By accepting the work of rearing children in these last days of uncertainty and
peril, many place themselves in a position where they cannot labor either in the
canvassing field or in any other branch of the cause of God, and some lose all
interest to do this. They are content with a common, low level, and assimilate to
the position they have chosen. The bewitching power of Satan's deceptions wrought
within the human heart its evil work. Instead of candidly considering the time in
which we live, and the work they might do in leading others to the truth, they
reason from a selfish standpoint, and follow the impulse of their own unconsecrated
hearts. �The flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh.�
The natural appetites and passions become a controlling power, and the result is
that spiritual growth ceases; the soul is, as it were, paralyzed. �The General
Conference Bulletin, February 6, 1893 {PH048 29.1}

* In this age of the world, as the scenes of earth's history are soon to close and
we are about to enter upon the time of trouble such as never was, the fewer the
marriages contracted, the better for all, both men and women." {5T 366}

* The wine of Babylon is the exalting of the false and spurious sabbath above the
Sabbath which thie Lord Jehovah hath blessed and sanctified for the use of man,
also [it is] the immortality of the soul. These kindred heresies, and the rejection
of the truth, convert the church into Babylon. Kings, merchants, rules, and
religious teaches are all in corrupt harmony. {2SM p. 68.2}

* By their testimony every statement and every miracle must be tested...None but
those who have fortified the mind with the truths of the Bible will stand through
the last great conflict...It is the first and highest duty of every rational being
to learn from the Scriptures what is truth, and then to walk in the light and
encourage others to follow his example. We should day by day study the Bible
diligently, weighing every thought and comparing scripture with scripture...We
should exert all the powers of the mind in the study of the Scriptures and should
task the understanding to comprehend, as far as mortals can, the deep things of
God; {Great Controversy p. 593, 598, 599

* we must not forget that the docility and submission of a child is the true spirit
of the learner. Scriptural difficulties can never be mastered by the same methods
that are employed in grappling with philosophical problems. We should not engage in
the study of the Bible with that self-reliance with which so many enter the domains
of science, but with a prayerful dependence upon God and a sincere desire to learn
His will. We must come with a humble and teachable spirit to obtain knowledge from
the great I AM. Otherwise, evil angels will so blind our minds and harden our
hearts that we shall not be impressed by the truth.

* Many a portion of Scripture which learned men pronounce a mystery, or pass over
as unimportant, is full of comfort and instruction to him who has been taught in
the school of Christ. One reason why many theologians have no clearer understanding
of God's word is, they close their eyes to truths which they do not wish to
practice. As understanding of Bible truth depends not so much on the power of
intellect brought to the search as on the singleness of purpose, the earnest
longing after righteousness. The Bible should never be studied without prayer. The
Holy Spirit alone can cause us to feel the importance of those things easy to be
understood, or prevent us from wresting truths difficult of comprehension. {Great
Controversy p. 599-600}

* Be careful, exceedingly careful as to how you dwell upon the human nature of
Christ. Do not set Him before the people as a man with the propensities of sin. He
is the second Adam. The first Adam was created a pure, sinless being, without a
taint of sin upon him; he was in the image of God. He could fall, and he did fall
through transgressing. Because of sin his posterity was born with inherent
propensities of disobedience. But Jesus Christ was the only begotten Son of God. He
took upon Himself human nature, and was tempted in all points as human nature is
tempted. He could have sinned; He could have fallen, but not for one moment was
there in Him an evil propensity. He was assailed with temptations in the
wilderness, as Adam was assailed with temptations in Eden. {5Bible Commentary
1128.4}

* The wide diversity of belief in the Protestant churches is regarded by many as

decisive proof that no effort to secure a forced uniformity can ever be made. But
there has been for years, in churches of the Protestant faith, a strong and growing
sentiment in favor of a union based upon common points of doctrine. To secure such
a union, the discussion of subjects upon which all were not agreed�however
important they might be from a Bible standpoint�must necessarily be waived. {Great
Controversy p. 444}

** Go to Him with your soul all stained as it is. Like the psalmist, throw its
chambers open to the ALL-SEEING EYE, exclaiming: "Search me, O God, and know my
heart". {Testimonies Vol 5, p. 334}

** The ALL-SEEING EYE of God is upon us; the secret thoughts of our hearts are not
hidden. Everyone of us will be judged accoring to the ddeds done in the body...How
does He who can understand every motive, see every thought, hear every word, behold
every action of your life, regard your case? Will you consider these solemn
questions before every case shall be irrevocably fixed before it shall be
everlastingly too late for wrongs to be righted? {Youth Instructor, July 21, 1892}

*** Psalms 33:18; Ezra 5:5; Psalms 11:4

* In public labor do not make prominent, and quote that which Sister White has
written, as authority to sustain your positions. To do this will not increase faith
in the testimonies. Bring your evidences, clear and plain, from the Word of God. A
"Thus saith the Lord" is the strongest testimony you can possibly present to the
people. Let none be educated to look to Sister White, but to the mighty God, who
gives instruction to Sister White." {Letter 11, 1894}

* The Lord desires you to study your Bibles. He as not given any additional light
to take the place of his Word. This light is to bring confused minds to his Word,
which, if eaten and digested, is as the lifeblood of the soul. Then good works will
be sen as light shining in darkness. {Letter 130, 1901}

*** "Once Luther remarked that he would give his doctor's beret to anyone who could
reconcile James and Paul. Yet he did not venture to rejct James from the canon of
Scripture, and on occasion earned his own beret by effecting reconciliation.
'Faith', he wrote, 'is a living, restles thing. It cannot be inoperative. We are
not saved by works; bu if there be no works, there must be something amiss with
faith'" {Here I stand, p. 259 - Luther's great biographer Roland Bainton}

*****Apparent contradiction******
{TA, 152.3} vs {MS, 129, 1905}
Also the writing on the wall in Daniel, in one book it was an angel, in another it
was the hand of God (I forgot the sources)