Ellen G. White
Ellen G. White
Ellen Gould Whitewas a prolific author and an American Christian pioneer. Along with other Sabbatarian Adventist leaders such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she formed what became known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Smithsonian magazine named Ellen G. White among 100 Most Significant Americans in an acknowledgement of her influence on religion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 November 1827
CountryUnited States of America
contrary creature death designed food fruit garden gave god life parents plan race trees wants
God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.
cover discern god requires servants walk
God requires his servants to walk in the light, and not cover their eyes that they may not discern the working of Satan.
faithfully
Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.
god hidden knows mortal
God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.
people church earth
God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots, not one here and one there, but a people. The truth is a sanctifying power, but the church militant is not yet the church triumphant...
individual-effort people church
Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.
blood giving energy
The bath soothes the nerves. It promotes general perspiration, quickens the circulation, overcomes obstruction in the system, and acts beneficially on the kidneys and the urinary organs. Bathing helps the bowels, stomach, and liver, giving energy and new life to each. It also promotes digestion and instead of the system being weakened, it is strengthened...and a more easy and regular flow of the blood through all the blood vessels is obtained.
understanding weakness strive
We should strive to understand the weakness of others.
heart exercise blood
If physical exercise were combined with mental exertion, the blood would be quickened in its circulation, the action of the heart would be more perfect, impure matter would be thrown off, and new life and vigor would be experienced in every part of the body.
men best-effort bragging
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
exercise blood daily-activities
God designed that the living machinery should be in daily activity. For in this activity or motion is its preserving power.... The more we exercise, the better will be the circulation of the blood.
lying sleep should-have
The stomach, when we lie down to rest, should have its work done, that it may enjoy rest, as well as other portions of the body. The work of digestion should not be carried on through any period of the sleeping hours.
animal blood hands
The most important part of the daily ministration was the service performed in behalf of individuals. ... By his own hand the animal was then slain, and the blood was carried by the priest into the holy place and sprinkled before the veil, behind which was the ark containing the law that the sinner had transgressed. By this ceremony the sin was, through the blood, transferred in figure to the sanctuary
true-happiness fountain guides
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.