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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 150
Health is a treasure. Of all temporal possessions it is the most
precious. Wealth, learning, and honor are dearly purchased at the loss
of the vigor of health. None of these can secure happiness, if health is
lacking. It is a terrible sin to abuse the health that God has given us;
such abuses enfeeble us for life, and make us losers, even if we gain
by such means any amount of education.
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 151
God has bountifully provided for the sustenance and happiness
of all His creatures; if His laws were never violated, if all acted in
harmony with the divine will, health, peace, and happiness, instead of
misery and continual evil, would be the result.
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 159
Those who, having had the light upon the subject of eating and
dressing with simplicity, in obedience to moral and physical laws, still
turn from the light which points out their duty, will shun duty in other
things. By shunning the cross which they would have to take up in
order to be in harmony with natural law, they blunt the conscience;
and they will, to avoid reproach, violate the ten commandments. There
is with some a decided unwillingness to endure the cross and despise
the shame.
The Ministry of Healing, 114-115
God desires us to reach the standard of perfection made possible
for us by the gift of Christ. He calls upon us to make our choice on
the right side, to connect with heavenly agencies, to adopt principles
that will restore in us the divine image. In His written word and in the
great book of nature He has revealed the principles of life. It is our
work to obtain a knowledge of these principles, and by obedience to
co-operate with Him in restoring health to the body as well as to the
soul.
The Ministry of Healing, 283
Had the Israelites obeyed the instruction they received, and profited
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