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18621 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 122.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… , if God would give me such a book for my own!” Angels of Heaven were by his side, and rays of light from the throne of God revealed the treasures of truth to his understanding …
18622 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 122.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… with God, led him at last to enter a cloister, and devote himself to a monastic life. Here he was required to perform the lowest drudgery, and to beg from house …
18623 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 123.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God’s Word. He had found a Bible chained to the convent wall, and to this he often repaired. As his convictions of sin deepened, he sought by his own works to …
18624 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 123.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God to Luther’s mind, and bade him look away from himself, cease the contemplation of infinite punishment for the violation of God’s law, and look to Jesus …
18625 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 124.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God. Luther hesitated, feeling himself unworthy to speak to the people in Christ’s stead. It was only after a long struggle that he yielded to the solicitations …
18626 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 124.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God he was led to visit Rome. He pursued his journey on foot, lodging at the monasteries on the way. At a convent in Italy he was filled with wonder at the wealth …
18627 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 125.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God, not the sayings and doctrines of the popes, all the days of his life. He was no longer the mere monk or professor, but the authorized herald of the Bible …
18628 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 126.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God. He fearlessly attacked the speculative infidelity of the schoolmen, and opposed the philosophy and theology which had so long held a controlling …
18629 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 126.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… Reformation, “God does not conduct, but drives me forward. I am not master of my own actions. I would gladly live in repose, but I am thrown into the midst of tumults …
18630 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 126.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… for God’s worship,—the corner-stone laid with the wages of iniquity. But the very means adopted for Rome’s aggrandizement provoked the deadliest blow to …
18631 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 127.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God; but having escaped the punishment due to his crimes, he was employed to further the mercenary and unscrupulous projects of the pope. With great effrontery …
18632 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 127.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God and of the holy father is at your gates.” And the people welcomed the blasphemous pretender as if he were God himself come down from Heaven to them. The …
18633 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 128.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God may be purchased with money.” [ Acts 8:20 .] But Tetzel’s offer was grasped by eager thousands. Gold and silver flowed into his treasury. A salvation that could …
18634 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 128.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… if God would not work through some instrumentality for the purification of his church.
18635 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 129.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… toward God and faith in Christ can save the sinner. The grace of Christ cannot be purchased; it is a free gift. He counseled the people not to buy the indulgences …
18636 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 129.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God, therein revealed, is freely bestowed upon all who seek it by repentance and faith.
18637 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 130.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God. They felt that the Lord had graciously set his hand to arrest the rapidly swelling tide of corruption that was issuing from the see of Rome. Princes …
18638 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 130.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God, but was acting from pride and forwardness. “Who does not know,” he responded, “that one can seldom advance a new idea without having some appearance of pride …
18639 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 131.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God. If the work be of God, who shall stop it? If it be not, who shall forward it? Not my will, not theirs, not ours, but thy will, holy Father who art in Heaven!”
18640 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 131.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God to begin his work, he was not to carry it forward without severe conflicts. The reproaches of his enemies, their misrepresentation of his purposes, and …