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1021 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 49, 1887, par. 3
… is not dependent on you or any man to do His work. If your heart is not pure, if your hands are not clean in His sight, He cannot work with you. He wants truth in the …
1022 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 51d, 1887, par. 28
… is not so. We mean to get down, as I told you in the tent at Oakland, to the very root of these evils and dig them out if possible. I see the evils existing which must …
1023 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 57, 1887, par. 3
… , and evil habits overcome. Wrong dispositions and feelings are to be rooted out, and holy tempers and emotions begotten in us by the Spirit of God.
1024 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Ms 18, 1887, par. 14
… of spiritous liquors and the great evil it does to man. Though liquor drinkers are told again and again that they are lessening the days of their life, they …
1025 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Ms 19, 1887, par. 27
… the Spirit of God like diversity, envy, jealousy, evil surmising. There should not be the least petting in the school, but respect your students and teach them …
1026 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Ms 24, 1887, par. 34
… the evil is not corrected, for church discipline. I have been shown before I came to Europe that there was a spirit of evil speaking, censure, and severity among …
1027 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Ms 24, 1887, par. 35
… are not the fruits of the Spirit. Kindliness must be cultivated or else it will dwindle and vanish. When we are actuated by the principles of the gospel, we shall …
1028 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Ms 24, 1887, par. 46
… correct evil in a hasty, cross spirit, two evils will be created instead of correcting one. Mutual support is essential. It is the fruit of the Spirit which grows …
1029 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Ms 24, 1887, par. 47
… a spirit different from the spirit of Christ; if harsh language is used; if for difficulties small or great a spirit of impatience is manifested which stirs …
1030 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Ms 24, 1887, par. 48
… , glory not, and lie not against the truth.” James 3:2, 11-14. That means that those who have these things in the heart often wish, with a stern, harsh spirit, to put things …
1031 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Ms 24, 1887, par. 50
… to evil surmising or outrage. To be master of one’s spirit is to be stronger than kings or conquerors. A Christian leads one to think of Christ. He will be affable …
1032 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Ms 32, 1887, par. 9
… is not separated from Christ by evil works himself. He must be spiritual and restore such an one in the spirit of meekness. Unless he has this spirit, he has no …
1033 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Ms 32, 1887, par. 16
… —must not carelessly allow the members to be irregular in conduct and thus let evil and sin strengthen in the church, thinking this is the way to show love for …
1034 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Ms 40, 1887, par. 17
… their evil traits, they began to find fault with the manner in which the testimony was given. The evil one, who never wants men to improve, led them on step by step …
1035 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 8, 1888, par. 12
… the evil workers, the mischief-makers, than to have the Lord’s Spirit removed from the institution.
1036 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 12, 1888, par. 6
… Spirit of God, you will make some very unwise moves which will injure if not destroy your influence among the people. Then, not seeing yourself, not studying …
1037 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 13, 1888, par. 7
… Holy Spirit or follow our own natural impulses, and these impulses are not as harmless as we think they are. Things which are offensive to God are often construed …
1038 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 13, 1888, par. 14
… surmised evil, but your imaginings are without foundation. Not one in Healdsburg has passed any words with me in regard to Zua. Your own lips told me the only …
1039 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 15, 1888, par. 10
… right spirit toward God or toward our brethren. It is a spirit of wanting to be first. Self-esteem has been cherished, and you have had a spirit of criticism toward …
1040 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 15, 1888, par. 13
… grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking be put …