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3541 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 413.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… in spiritual strength while your appetite and passions are not under perfect control. Says the inspired apostle: “I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection …
3542 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 414.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… in spiritual as well as temporal things. Your efforts lack earnestness. Oh, how many are low in the scale of spirituality because they will not deny their appetite …
3543 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 414.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… earnest spirituality, I know that their profession is false if they have not brought all their passions under control. God requires this. The reason why such …
3544 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 416.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… her spiritual attainments as inferior to your own, but I saw that God was better pleased with her spirit than with that possessed by yourself. You are not worthy …
3545 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 418.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… your spiritual attainments far in advance of hers. My brother, you do not know yourself. God looks at the heart, not at the words or profession. The externals …
3546 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 420.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… even spiritual instruction, just as overeating burdens the stomach and lessens the appetite, leading even to a loathing of food. The minds of the people may …
3547 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 427.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of spiritual indolence and sloth. She is reluctant to engage in any good work if it is not pleasant and agreeable. What was the sin of Meroz? Doing nothing. It …
3548 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 433.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… or spiritual things. She must learn to bear bodily infirmities and not dwell upon them as she does. She must fight the battles of life for herself; an individual …
3549 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 434.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… no spiritual strength from this. If the strength spent in talking were devoted to prayer, you would receive spiritual strength and would make melody in your …
3550 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 439.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… and spirituality to discover these stumbling blocks and remove them out of the way. Men who stand in very responsible positions at the heart of the work are …
3551 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 441.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… of spiritual discernment that they do not detect him. They have not the burden of the work. The solemn truths they profess to believe are not a reality to them …
3552 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 444.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of spirituality, so few who had a living experience in religious things? I was referred to the words of the prophet: “Son of man, these men have set up their idols …
3553 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 445.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of spirituality, of holiness, which leads to unrighteous acts, to envy, hatred, jealousy, evil surmisings, and every hateful and abominable sin.
3554 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 470.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… in spiritual exercises. Impure thoughts seize and control the imagination and fascinate the mind, and next follows an almost uncontrollable desire for …
3555 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 475.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… and spiritual themes by dwelling upon interesting spiritual subjects. It may be necessary to humbly and affectionately urge, even at the risk of his displeasure …
3556 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 476.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… more spiritually minded, that they might be partakers together of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. The …
3557 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 485.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… the spiritual and devotional. Satan has triumphed to see how easily he can come in through the appetite and control men and women of intelligence, calculated …
3558 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 487.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… their spiritual strength. They are deficient in thoroughness in their Christian experience. Conscience is not regarded. The basis or cause of every right …
3559 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 498.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… with spiritual sloth. Where there is a lack of persevering energy and close application in temporal matters and business transactions, the same deficiency …
3560 Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 506.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… as spiritual physicians they are required to have skill in administering to souls diseased with sin. The work of warning sinners, of weeping over them and …