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19701 The Great Controversy, p. 119.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… , and God will surely visit you, and bring you out.’”— Ibid., b. 3, ch. 19. “The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches …
19702 The Great Controversy, p. 120.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God, and acknowledging no foundation for religious faith but the Holy Scriptures, Luther was the man for his time; through him God accomplished a great …
19703 The Great Controversy, p. 120.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… ; but God purposed to make him a builder in the great temple that was rising so slowly through the centuries. Hardship, privation, and severe discipline were …
19704 The Great Controversy, p. 121.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God and the practice of Christian virtues. The father’s prayer often ascended in the hearing of his son that the child might remember the name of the Lord …
19705 The Great Controversy, p. 121.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God as a stern, unrelenting judge, a cruel tyrant, rather than a kind heavenly Father.
19706 The Great Controversy, p. 122.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… before God. He had an abiding sense of his dependence upon divine aid, and he did not fail to begin each day with prayer, while his heart was continually breathing …
19707 The Great Controversy, p. 122.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… that God would give me such a book for myself!”— Ibid., b. 2, ch. 2. Angels of heaven were by his side, and rays of light from the throne of God revealed the treasures of …
19708 The Great Controversy, p. 123.1 (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 …
19709 The Great Controversy, p. 123.2 (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 …
19710 The Great Controversy, p. 123.3 (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 …
19711 The Great Controversy, 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 …
19712 The Great Controversy, 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 …
19713 The Great Controversy, 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 …
19714 The Great Controversy, 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 …
19715 The Great Controversy, p. 126.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… Reformation: “God does not guide me, He pushes me forward. He carries me away. I am not master of myself. I desire to live in repose; but I am thrown into the midst of …
19716 The Great Controversy, p. 127.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… for God’s worship—the cornerstone laid with the wages of iniquity! But the very means adopted for Rome’s aggrandizement provoked the deadliest blow to …
19717 The Great Controversy, p. 127.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God; but having escaped the punishment due for his crimes, he was employed to further the mercenary and unscrupulous projects of the pope. With great effrontery …
19718 The Great Controversy, p. 127.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God and of the holy father is at your gates.”—D’Aubigne, b. 3, ch. 1. And the people welcomed the blasphemous pretender as if he were God Himself come down from heaven …
19719 The Great Controversy, 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 …
19720 The Great Controversy, p. 128.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… if God would not work through some instrumentality for the purification of His church.