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19541 Love Under Fire, p. 28.5 (Ellen Gould White)

… his spiritual supremacy. By paying money to the church, people could free themselves from sin and also release the souls of friends who had died and were being …

19542 Love Under Fire, p. 37.3 (Ellen Gould White)

… fervent spirituality as well as his sound scholarship. Educated in scholastic philosophy, the laws of the church, and civil law, he was prepared to take up …

19543 Love Under Fire, p. 44.4 (Ellen Gould White)

… the spiritual blessings it claims to give. After completing his college course, he entered the priesthood. Quickly gaining prominence, he became attached …

19544 Love Under Fire, p. 47.3 (Ellen Gould White)

… to spiritual things. Be pious and humble with the poor, and don’t spend your resources on feasting.” François P. E. B. de Bonnechose, The Reformers Before the Reformation …

19545 Love Under Fire, p. 72.6 (Ellen Gould White)

… in spiritual matters is a real worship, and it ought to be given only to the Creator.” J. H. Merle D’Aubigné, History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century …

19546 Love Under Fire, p. 108.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… of spiritual darkness, Whitefield and the Wesleys appeared as light bearers for God. Under the established church the people had fallen into a condition …

19547 Love Under Fire, p. 110.4 (Ellen Gould White)

… , the spiritual decline in England just before the time of Wesley had resulted from teaching that Christ had done away with the moral law and that Christians …

19548 Love Under Fire, p. 113.4 (Ellen Gould White)

… which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.... And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send …

19549 Love Under Fire, p. 114.5 (Ellen Gould White)

… is “spiritually” Egypt. Of all nations in Bible history, Egypt most boldly denied the existence of the living God and resisted His commands. No ruler ever dared …

19550 Love Under Fire, p. 114.6 (Ellen Gould White)

“The great city” of the prophecy is also compared “spiritually” to Sodom. The corruption of Sodom was especially evident in its open sexual impurity. This would also be a characteristic of the nation that would fulfill this scripture.

19551 Love Under Fire, p. 130.6 (Ellen Gould White)

… low spiritual condition of believers that would exist just before His second advent. Christ’s counsel to those living at this time is: “Take heed to yourselves …

19552 Love Under Fire, p. 136.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… only spiritually. Christians did not generally believe that way until about the beginning of the eighteenth century. This doctrine taught people to look …

19553 Love Under Fire, p. 157.3 (Ellen Gould White)

… in spiritual life. But in that year there were signs of a sharp drop in nearly all the churches throughout the country. Both the press and the pulpit commented …

19554 Love Under Fire, p. 157.5 (Ellen Gould White)

… age.... Spiritual apathy is almost everywhere, and is fearfully deep. The religious press of the whole land testifies to this.... So many church members are becoming …

19555 Love Under Fire, p. 158.1 (Ellen Gould White)

Spiritual darkness does not come from God’s arbitrarily withdrawing His divine grace, but from men and women’s rejection of light. By devotion to the world …

19556 Love Under Fire, p. 159.2 (Ellen Gould White)

Refusing the warning of the first angel was the cause of that terrible condition of worldliness, backsliding, and spiritual death that existed in the churches in 1844.

19558 Love Under Fire, p. 161.7 (Ellen Gould White)

… of spiritual decline in England: “Apostasy, apostasy, apostasy, is engraved on the very front of every church; and if they only knew it, and if they felt it, there …

19559 Love Under Fire, p. 162.5 (Ellen Gould White)

… the spiritual darkness in the churches that comprise Babylon, the great majority of Christ’s true followers are still in those churches. Many have never …

19560 Love Under Fire, p. 190.4 (Ellen Gould White)

… real spiritual life in those who responded. The light that flames up for a while soon dies out.