Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 1 - Ellen G. White

do hurt; but the excellence and value of pure love
consist in its efficiency to do good, and to do
nothing else than good. Whatsoever is done out of
pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the
sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God regards
more with how much love one worketh than the
amount he doeth. Love is of God. The unconverted
heart cannot originate or produce this plant of
heavenly growth which lives and flourishes only
where Christ reigns.—Testimonies for the Church
2:135 (1868).
Love a Fragrant Atmosphere.—Every soul is
surrounded by an atmosphere of its own—an
atmosphere, it may be, charged with the life-giving
power of faith, courage, and hope, and sweet with
the fragrance of love. Or it may be heavy and chill
with the gloom of discontent and selfishness, or
poisonous with the deadly taint of cherished sin.
By the atmosphere surrounding us every person
with whom we come in contact is consciously or
unconsciously affected.—Christ’s Object Lessons,
339 (1900).
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