When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music. Ellen G. White Read Quote
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God. Ellen G. White Read Quote
As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection. Ellen G. White Read Quote
Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood. Ellen G. White Read Quote
Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth. Ellen G. White Read Quote
No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union. Ellen G. White Read Quote
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite. Ellen G. White Read Quote
Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him. Ellen G. White Read Quote
The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied. Ellen G. White Read Quote
Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul. Ellen G. White Read Quote
