Ellen G. White famous quotes

The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love and fear and suffer. They use their organs far more faithfully than many human beings use theirs. They manifest sympathy and tenderness toward their companions in suffering. Many animals show an affection for those who have charge of them, far superior to the affection shown by some of the human race. They form attachments for man which are not broken without great suffering to them.
-- Ellen G. White

#Men #Animal #Race

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.
-- Ellen G. White

#Spiritual #Believe #Men

Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our means of doing good will never be exhausted. We may draw upon His fulness, and receive of that grace which has no limit.
-- Ellen G. White

#Jesus #Inspiration #Mean

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
-- Ellen G. White

#Faith #Have Faith #Harvest

All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service. When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, our life will be a life of continual obedience. Through an appreciation of the character of Christ, through communion with God, sin will become hateful to us.
-- Ellen G. White

#Appreciation #Character #Heart

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
-- Ellen G. White

#Fall #Men #Names

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
-- Ellen G. White

#People #Reform #Doctrine

What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?
-- Ellen G. White

#Sweet #Heart #Eye

It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. At the same time he causes them to cherish false conceptions of God so that they regard Him with fear and hate rather than with love. The cruelty inherent in his own character is attributed to the Creator; it is embodied in systems of religion and expressed in modes of worship.
-- Ellen G. White

#Hate #Real #Character

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.
-- Ellen G. White

#Father #Way #Thousand

A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
-- Ellen G. White

#Christian #Humility #Helping Others

Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
-- Ellen G. White

#Christian #Heart #Way

If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.
-- Ellen G. White

#Heaven #Gains

Don't you quote Sister White. I don't want you ever to quote Sister White until you get your vantage ground where you know where you are. Quote the Bible. Talk the Bible. It is full of meat, full of fatness. Carry it right out in your life, and you will know more Bible than you know now.
-- Ellen G. White

#Bible #White #Meat

There is no exercise that can take the place of walking. by it the circulation of the blood is greatly improved. Walking, in all cases where it is possible, is the best remedy for the diseased bodies, because in this, all of the organs of the body are brought into use.
-- Ellen G. White

#Exercise #Blood #Use

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.
-- Ellen G. White

#Teaching #Past #Way

There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves.
-- Ellen G. White

#Leaving #Care #Littles

It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.
-- Ellen G. White

#Important #Doe #Would Be

Singing is as much an act of worship as is prayer.
-- Ellen G. White

#Prayer #Singing #Worship

Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.
-- Ellen G. White

#Believe #Exercise #Blessing

In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the air which circulates around the globe. All who chose to breathe this life-giving atmosphere will live and grow up to the stature of men and women in Christ Jesus.
-- Ellen G. White

#Jesus #Growing Up #Real

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.
-- Ellen G. White

#Prayer #Heart #Order

Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.
-- Ellen G. White

#Jesus #Children #Believe

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
-- Ellen G. White

#Taken #Soul #Ruins

The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.
-- Ellen G. White

#Reading #Sleep #Light

The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
-- Ellen G. White

#Jesus #Arrows #Law

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.
-- Ellen G. White

#Religious #Humanity #Privilege

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.
-- Ellen G. White

#Mind #Pathways #Quiet

It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.
-- Ellen G. White

#Mistake #Mind #Study

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
-- Ellen G. White

#Justice #Heaven #Deeds

The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.
-- Ellen G. White

#Ignorance #Doctors #Broken

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.
-- Ellen G. White

#Dying #Legacy #Miserable

God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots, not one here and one there, but a people. The truth is a sanctifying power, but the church militant is not yet the church triumphant...
-- Ellen G. White

#People #Church #Earth

Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are defective members. . . . While the Lord brings into the church those who are truly converted, Satan at the same time brings persons who are not converted into its fellowship. While Christ is sowing the good seed, Satan is sowing the tares. There are two opposing influences continually exerted on the members of the church. One influence is working for the purification of the church, and the other for the corrupting of the people of God...
-- Ellen G. White

#Sorry #Two #People

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.
-- Ellen G. White

#Missionary #Spirit #Christ

The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.
-- Ellen G. White

#Confusion #Church #World

The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character and love. The children of God are to manifest His glory. In their own life and character they are to reveal what the grace of God has done for them.
-- Ellen G. White

#Children #Character #Light

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.
-- Ellen G. White

#People #Stones #Bread

Gather every promise. This is Jesus, the life of every grace, the life of every promise, the life of every ordinance, the life of every blessing.
-- Ellen G. White

#Jesus #Blessing #Grace

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

#Christian #Prayer #People

Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate.
-- Ellen G. White

#Air #People #Appreciate

Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are defective members, that there are tares amid the wheat. . . . Although there are evils existing in the church, and will be until the end of the world, the church in these last days is to be the light of the world that is polluted and demoralized by sin. The church, enfeebled and defective, needing to be reproved, warned, and counseled, is the only object upon earth upon which Christ bestows His supreme regard.
-- Ellen G. White

#Sorry #Light #Evil

If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.
-- Ellen G. White

#Drinking #Mind #Suffering

In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.
-- Ellen G. White

#Shadow #Infallibility

But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith have committed the keeping of their souls to Him.He pleads their cause, and by the mighty arguments of Calvary vanquishes their accuser.
-- Ellen G. White

#Jesus #Soul #Causes

If physical exercise were combined with mental exertion, the blood would be quickened in its circulation, the action of the heart would be more perfect, impure matter would be thrown off, and new life and vigor would be experienced in every part of the body.
-- Ellen G. White

#Heart #Exercise #Blood

Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.
-- Ellen G. White

#Morning #Flower #Exercise

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.
-- Ellen G. White

#Christian #Favors #Argument

Exercise will aid in the work of digestion. Take a walk after a meal; but no violent exercise after a full meal.
-- Ellen G. White

#Exercise #Meals #Digestion

Moderate exercise every day will impart strength to the muscles, which without exercise become flabby and enfeebled.
-- Ellen G. White

#Exercise #Muscles

God designed that the living machinery should be in daily activity. For in this activity or motion is its preserving power.... The more we exercise, the better will be the circulation of the blood.
-- Ellen G. White

#Exercise #Blood #Should

Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.
-- Ellen G. White

#Prayer #Soul #Unbroken

We must hold fast to the truths which we have already received; we must not look with suspicion upon any new light that God may send.
-- Ellen G. White

#Light #Looks #May

I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there is danger that any words I may speak shall be reported as something that the Lord has given me. It is not always safe for me to express my own judgment; for sometimes when someone wishes to carry out his own purpose, he will regard any favorable word I may speak as special light from the Lord
-- Ellen G. White

#Light #Giving #Special

It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit."
-- Ellen G. White

#Love Is #Desire #Firsts

I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.
-- Ellen G. White

#Heart #Sadness #Thinking

God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
-- Ellen G. White

#Light #People #Shining

The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
-- Ellen G. White

#Daughter #Mother #Cheerful

Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.
-- Ellen G. White

#Prayer #Devil #Roaring