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of his reason, affections, conscience. Such a man is destroying the
temple of God. Tea drinking helps to do this same work. Yet how many
there are who place these destroying agencies on their tables, thereby
quenching the divine attributes.—
Manuscript 130, 1899.
(
Temperance,
79, 80
.)
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Diet Affects Conscience—Gross and stimulating food fevers the
blood, excites the nervous system, and too often dulls the moral per-
ceptions so that reason and conscience are overborne by the sen-
sual impulses.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 134, 1890
.
(
Counsels on Diet and Foods, 243
.)
Health and Conscience—Health is an inestimable blessing, and
one which is more closely related to conscience and religion than
many realize. It has a great deal to do with one’s capability. Every
minister should feel that as he would be a faithful guardian of the
flock, he must preserve all his powers in condition for the best possible
service.—
Gospel Workers, 175
(1893). (
Counsels on Health, 566
.)
Conscience Effective Agent in Restoring Health—If you are
burdened and weary, you need not curl up like leaves upon a withered
branch. Cheerfulness and a clear conscience are better than drugs and
will be an effective agent in your restoration to health.—
The Health
Reformer, June, 1871
. (
My Life Today, 177
.)
Possible to Be Conscientiously Wrong—The idea is entertained
by many that a man may practice anything that he conscientiously
believes to be right. But the question is, Has the man a well-instructed,
good conscience, or is it biased and warped by his own preconceived
opinions? Conscience is not to take the place of “Thus saith the
Lord.” Consciences do not all harmonize and are not all inspired alike.
Some consciences are dead, seared as with a hot iron. Men may be
conscientiously wrong as well as conscientiously right. Paul did not
believe in Jesus of Nazareth, and he hunted the Christians from city
to city, verily believing that he was doing service to God.—
Letter 4,
1889
.
Human Perceptions an Unstable Guide—“The light of the body
is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be
full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of
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darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is
that darkness!” (
Matthew 6:22
).