Self-respect
207
Cultivate Self-respect—It is not pleasing to God that you should
demerit yourself. You should cultivate self-respect by living so that
you will be approved by your own conscience and before men and
angels.... It is your privilege to go to Jesus and be cleansed, and to
stand before the law without shame or remorse. “There is therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (
Romans 8:1
). While we should
not think of ourselves more highly than we ought, the Word of God
does not condemn a proper self-respect. As sons and daughters of
God, we should have a conscious dignity of character, in which pride
and self-importance have no part.—
The Review and Herald, March
27, 1888
. (HC 143.)