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of true humility that you go with your head bowed down, and your
heart filled with thoughts of self. It is your privilege to go to Jesus and
be cleansed, and to stand before the law without shame and remorse.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ
Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” 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
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Counsel to One Who Had Lost Self-respect—Jesus loves you,
and He has given me a message for you. His great heart of infinite
tenderness yearns over you. He sends you the message that you may
recover yourself from the snare of the enemy. You may regain your
self-respect. You may stand where you regard yourself, not as a failure,
but as a conqueror, in and through the uplifting influence of the Spirit
of God. Take hold of the hand of Christ, and do not let it go.—
Medical
Ministry, 43 (1903)
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Bitter Words Result in Loss of Self-respect—What harm is
wrought in the family circle by the utterance of impatient words;
for the impatient 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. Those who indulge in such language
will experience shame, loss of self-respect, loss of self-confidence,
and will have bitter remorse and regret that they allowed themselves
to lose self-control and speak in this way. How much better would it
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be if words of this character were never spoken! How much better to
have the oil of grace in the heart, to be able to pass by all provocation,
and bear all things with Christlike meekness and forbearance.—
The
Review and Herald, May 19, 1891
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Self-respect, Humility, and Efficiency in God’s Work—In do-
ing the work of God you will be placed in a variety of circumstances
which will require self-possession and self-control, but which will
qualify you to adapt yourself to circumstances and the peculiarities of
the situation. Then you can act yourself unembarrassed. You should
not place too low an estimate upon your ability to act your part in the