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deceptive reasoning of the priests and rulers He discerned the working
of satanic agencies. Keen and searching had been His denunciation
of sin, but He spoke no words of retaliation. He had a holy wrath
against the prince of darkness, but He manifested no irritated temper.
So the Christian who lives in harmony with God, possessing the sweet
attributes of love and mercy, will feel a righteous indignation against
sin; but he will not be roused by passion to revile those who revile
him. Even in meeting those who are moved by a power from beneath
to maintain falsehood, in Christ he will still preserve calmness and
self-possession.—
The Desire of Ages, 619, 620
(1898).
Some People Nurse Wrath—Many look at things on their darkest
side; they magnify their supposed grievances, nurse their wrath, and
are filled with revengeful, hateful feelings, when in truth they had
no real cause for these feelings.... Resist these wrong feelings, and
you will experience a great change in your association with your
fellowmen.—
The Youth’s Instructor, November 10, 1886
.
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Impatience Produces a Baleful Harvest—What harm is wrought
in the family circle by the utterance of impatient words, for the im-
patient utterance of one leads another to retort in the same spirit and
manner. Then come words of retaliation, words of self-justification,
and it is by such words that a heavy, galling yoke is manufactured
for your neck; for all these bitter words will come back in a baleful
harvest to your soul.—
The Review and Herald, February 27, 1913
.
(
The Adventist Home, 439
.)
Hard words beat upon the heart through the ear, awakening to life
the worst passions of the soul and tempting men and women to break
God’s commandments Words are as seeds which are planted.—Lt 105,
1893. (
The Adventist Home, 439
.)
Among the members of many families there is practiced the habit of
saying loose, careless things; and the habit of tantalizing, of speaking
harsh words, becomes stronger and stronger as it is indulged, and
thus many objectionable words are spoken that are after Satan’s order
and not after the order of God.... Burning words of passion should
never be spoken, for in the sight of God and holy angels they are as
a species of swearing.—
The Youth’s Instructor, September 20, 1894
.
(
The Adventist Home, 439
.)
The First Three Years of a Child’s Life—Let selfishness, anger,
and self-will have its course for the first three years of a child’s life,