Ellen G. White Writings

1141 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 12, 1901, par. 17

… of investigation your preconceived opinions and your hereditary and cultivated ideas. You will never reach the truth if you search the Scriptures to vindicate …

1142 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 42, 1901, par. 32

… faith. Investigate closely the motives which prompt you to action. We are engaged in the work of the Most High. Let us not weave into the web of our work one thread …

1143 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 82, 1901, par. 99

… . I investigated them thoroughly. You see, if the physician would listen to all these little complaints of the patients, failing to understand that they were …

1144 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 82a, 1901, par. 100

… . I investigated it thoroughly. You see, if the physician would listen to all these little complaints of the patients, and to the prejudices that the devil puts …

1145 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 94, 1901, par. 13

… be investigated by disinterested men. It is the Lord’s money that is being handled. Through His heavenly intelligences He keeps an account of the way in which …

1146 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 104, 1901, par. 20

… thorough investigation of this matter. And let the parents of these children, if such there be, do all in their power to avert the great evil, else the curse of …

1147 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 108, 1901, par. 8

… closely investigated in the light of God’s holy Word. Never allow worldly policy or pretense to become stock in trade. A close, grasping spirit is an abomination …

1148 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 140, 1901, par. 21

… , to investigate matters which they could have adjusted themselves, had they asked wisdom of God. This was a dishonor to God and to the truth and consumed means …

1149 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 140, 1901, par. 37

… careful investigation. Of course, I would not want men who have not a Christian experience, or are lacking in ability to appreciate literary merit, to be placed …

1150 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 149, 1901, par. 10

… closest investigation from the Word of God to see if all is in accordance with the principles of true godliness, founded upon a “Thus saith the Lord.”

1151 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 149, 1901, par. 11

… an investigation of self. When you begin this work, you will find that you have your hands full. Too many who have entered the ministry have not had thorough …

1152 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 156, 1901, par. 19

… , thorough investigation of the needs of the work in various fields; persons who have a large capacity for work; persons who possess kind and warm hearts, cool …

1153 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 156, 1901, par. 38

… close investigation of self, that you shall not, in principle or action, misrepresent the Lord. The past experience is to be closely reviewed. Every motive …

1154 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 177, 1901, par. 23

Dr. Moran: So far as location is concerned, there should be some arrangement so that somebody should have time to investigate that matter thoroughly, and then the local board there to decide upon it.

1155 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 16 (1901), Ms 188, 1901, par. 13

… to investigate, and are awed by the wonderful revelation made to them. Many who in the past have not known God or Jesus Christ will thus be led to a knowledge …

1156 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 17 (1902), Lt 22, 1902, par. 15

… close investigation. Again and again God has helped you. And in many ways the scarcity of means from which you have suffered has been a blessing to you. But the …

1157 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 17 (1902), Lt 39, 1902, par. 6

… make investigation and call things by their right names. All dissension is born of the narrow conceptions of unsanctified minds.

1158 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 17 (1902), Lt 67, 1902, par. 3

… who investigates every action.

1159 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 17 (1902), Lt 145, 1902, par. 8

… , lest investigation prove that the cause of God is not advanced by the efforts put forth. A work may apparently bear the features of supreme excellence, but …

1160 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 17 (1902), Lt 145a, 1902, par. 4