{"author":"Ellen G. White","author_id":"Ellen+G.+White","total_quotes":56,"quotes":[{"text":"Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.","author":"Ellen G. White","tags":["love","pleasure","religious "],"id":107,"author_id":"Ellen+G.+White"},{"text":"The warnings given to the Hebrews against assimilating with the heathen were not more direct or explicit than are those forbidding Christians to conform to the spirit and customs of the ungodly.","author":"Ellen G. White","tags":["be-separate","christianity","joy","pure-life","purity"],"id":1911,"author_id":"Ellen+G.+White"},{"text":"The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold men who in their inmost souls are true and honest men who do not fear to call sin by its right name men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. ","author":"Ellen G. White","tags":["men","world","fall "],"id":6800,"author_id":"Ellen+G.+White"},{"text":"But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith have committed the keeping of their souls to Him.He pleads their cause, and by the mighty arguments of Calvary vanquishes their accuser.","author":"Ellen G. White","tags":["faith","forgiveness","grace","hope","inspirational","joy","mercy","peace","savior"],"id":10306,"author_id":"Ellen+G.+White"},{"text":"A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust.","author":"Ellen G. White","tags":["character","will","beholder "],"id":33953,"author_id":"Ellen+G.+White"},{"text":"The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by looking upon the uplifted serpent. That look implied faith. They lived because they believed God's word, and trusted in the means provided for their recover. So to sinner may look to Christ, and live. He receives pardon through faith in the atoning sacrifice. Unlike the inert and lifeless symbol, Christ has power and virtue in Himself to heal the repenting sinner.","author":"Ellen G. White","tags":["belief","believe","bible","biblical","christ-alone","christianity","faith","faith-alone","glory-to-god-alone","joy","love","mercy","repentance","salvation","scripture-alone"],"id":40048,"author_id":"Ellen+G.+White"},{"text":"Our acceptance with God is sure only through His beloved Son, and good works are but the result of the working of His sin-pardoning love. They are no credit to us, and we have nothing accorded to us for out good works by which we may claim a part in the salvation of our souls. Salvation is God’s free gift to the believer, given to him for Christ’s sake alone. The troubled soul may find peace through faith in Christ, and his peace will be in proportion to his faith and trust. He cannot present his good works as a plea for the salvation of his soul. \tBut are good works of no real value? Is the sinner who commits sin every day with impunity, regarded of God with the same favor as the one who through faith in Christ tries to work in his integrity? The Scripture answers, ‘We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should work in them.’ In His divine arrangement, through His unmerited favor, the Lord has ordained that good works shall be rewarded. We are accepted through Christ’s merit alone, and the acts of mercy, the deeds of charity, which we perform, are the fruits of faith; and they become a blessing to us; for men are to be rewarded according to their works. It is the fragrance of the merit of Christ than makes our good works acceptable to God, and it is grave that enables us to do the works for which He rewards us. Our works in and of themselves have no merit. When we have done all that it is possible for us to do, we are to count ourselves as unprofitable servants. We deserve no thanks from God. We have only done what it was our duty to do, and our works could not have been performed in the strength of our own sinful nature.  \tThe Lord has bidden us to draw nigh to Him, and He will draw nigh to us; and drawing nigh to Him, we receive the grace by which to do those good works which will be rewarded at His hands.","author":"Ellen G. White","tags":["faith","grace","hope","jesus","love","peace","salvation"],"id":69463,"author_id":"Ellen+G.+White"},{"text":"There is not a point that needs to be dwelt upon more earnestly, repeated more frequently, or established more firmly in the minds of all than the impossibility of fallen man meriting anything by his own best good works. Salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ alone.","author":"Ellen G. White","tags":["faith","jesus-christ","salvation"],"id":74237,"author_id":"Ellen+G.+White"},{"text":"If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.","author":"Ellen G. White","tags":["god","soul","short "],"id":92202,"author_id":"Ellen+G.+White"},{"text":"True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.","author":"Ellen G. White","tags":["deep","alone","passion "],"id":97554,"author_id":"Ellen+G.+White"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}