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of the soul is a happiness which words can never express.—
The Signs
of the Times, October 23, 1884
. (
Counsels on Health, 628
.)
Love of Jesus Surrounds Souls With Fragrant Atmosphere—
The souls of those who love Jesus will be surrounded with a pure,
fragrant atmosphere. There are those who hide their soul hunger.
These will be greatly helped by a tender word or a kind remembrance.
The heavenly gifts, freely and richly bestowed by God, are in turn to
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be freely bestowed by us upon all who come within the sphere of our
influence. Thus we reveal a love that is heaven-born and which will
increase as it is freely used in blessing others. Thus we glorify God.—
Manuscript 17, 1899.
(HC 231.)
Results of One Moment of Thoughtlessness—One safeguard
removed from conscience, the indulgence of one evil habit, a single
neglect of the high claims of duty, may be the beginning of a course of
deception that will pass you into the ranks of those who are serving
Satan, while you are all the time professing to love God and His cause.
A moment of thoughtlessness, a single misstep, may turn the whole
current of your lives in the wrong direction.—
Testimonies for the
Church 5:398
(1885).
God Works No Miracle to Prevent Harvest—The Lord sends us
warning, counsel, and reproof that we may have opportunity to correct
our errors before they become second nature. But if we refuse to be
corrected, God does not interfere to counteract the tendencies of our
own course of action. He works no miracle that the seed sown may
not spring up and bear fruit.
That man who manifests an infidel hardihood or a stolid indiffer-
ence to divine truth is but reaping the harvest which he has himself
sown. Such has been the experience of many. They listen with stoical
indifference to the truths which once stirred their very souls. They
sowed neglect, indifference, and resistance to the truth; and such is
the harvest which they reap. The coldness of ice, the hardness of
iron, the impenetrable, unimpressible nature of rock—all these find a
counterpart in the character of many a professed Christian.
It was thus that the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh. God
spoke to the Egyptian king by the mouth of Moses, giving him the
most striking evidences of divine power; but the monarch stubbornly
refused the light which would have brought him to repentance. God
did not send a supernatural power to harden the heart of the rebellious
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