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Healthful Living
God Misrepresented
227. The children of God cannot glorify him with sickly bodies or
dwarfed minds. Those who indulge in any species of intemperance,
either in eating or drinking, waste their physical energies and weaken
moral power.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 53
.
228. Those whose moral faculties are beclouded by disease, are not
the ones rightly to represent the Christian life, to show forth the joys
of salvation or the beauties of holiness. They are too often in the fire
of fanaticism or the water of cold indifference or stolid gloom.—
The
Signs of the Times, June 15, 1882, par. 2
.
229. While men and women professing godliness are diseased
from the crown of their head to the soles of their feet, while their
physical, mental and moral energies are enfeebled through gratification
of depraved appetite and excessive labor, how can they weigh the
evidences of truth, and comprehend the requirements of God? If their
moral and intellectual faculties are beclouded, they cannot appreciate
the value of the atonement or the exalted character of the work of God,
nor delight in the study of his word. How can a nervous dyspeptic
be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh him
for a reason of the hope that is in him, with meekness and fear?—
Testimonies for the Church 1:488
.
230. Perfection and the spirit of holiness cannot be attained with
diseased bodies and minds.—
Testimonies for the Church 1:554
.
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