Ellen G. White Quotes

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

Since 2005, I have been on a steadfast journey inward as a self-proclaimed Spirit Junkie. And I've never looked back.

I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

I'm not an evangelist Christian at all. I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem.