Ellen G. White Quotes

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

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.

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

Through the gospel of Jesus Christ, I am motivated to be a better person.