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various callings of practical life. Where you are aware of deficiencies,
go to work at once to remedy those defects. Do not trust to others
to supply your deficiencies, while you go on indifferently, as though
it were a matter of course that your peculiar organization must ever
remain so. Apply yourself earnestly to cure these defects, that you
may be perfect in Christ Jesus, wanting in nothing.—
Testimonies for
the Church 3:505 (1885)
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Respect and Love One Another—If we keep uppermost in our
minds the unkind and unjust acts of others we shall find it impossible
to love them as Christ has loved us; but if our thoughts dwell upon the
wondrous love and pity of Christ for us, the same spirit will flow out
to others. We should love and respect one another, notwithstanding
the faults and imperfections that we cannot help seeing. Humility and
self-distrust should be cultivated, and a patient tenderness with the
faults of others. This will kill out all narrowing selfishness and make
us largehearted and generous.—
Steps to Christ, 121 (1892)
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Christians Have a Positive Duty to Cultivate Respect for
Themselves—It should be the fixed purpose of the youth to aim high
in all their plans for their life-work. They should adopt for their gov-
ernment in all things the standard which God’s Word presents. This is
the Christian’s positive duty, and it should be also his positive plea-
sure. Cultivate respect for yourself because you are Christ’s purchased
possession. Success in the formation of right habits, advancement in
that which is noble and just, will give you an influence that all will
appreciate and value. Live for something besides self. If your motives
are pure and unselfish, if you are ever looking for work to do, if you
are always on the alert to show kindly attentions and do courteous
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deeds, you are unconsciously building your own monument. This is
the work God calls upon all children and youth to do. Do good, if you
would be cherished in the memory of others. Live to be a blessing to
all with whom you come in contact, wherever your lot may be cast.
Let the children and youth awake to their opportunities. By kindness
and love, by self-sacrificing deeds, let them write their names in the
hearts of those with whom they associate.—
The Youth’s Instructor,
February 7, 1901
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Duty of All to Respect Self—We must have a better and deeper
teaching than man can give us. There must be a deep conviction
in our own souls that forms and ceremonies are as nothing without