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

Depravity.—The moral dangers to which all, both
old and young, are exposed are daily increasing.
Moral derangement, which we call depravity, finds
ample room to work, and an influence is exerted by
men, women, and youth professing to be Christians
that is low, sensual, devilish.—Lt 26d, 1887.
Satan is making masterly efforts to involve
married men and women and children and youth in
impure practices. His temptations find acceptance
in many hearts, because they have not been
elevated, purified, refined, and ennobled by the
sacred truth which they claim to believe. Not a few
have been low and vile in thought and common in
talk and deportment so that when Satan’s
temptations come, they have no moral power to
resist them and fall an easy prey.—Lt 26d, 1887.
(In Heavenly Places, 199.)
The Downward Steps.—Satan’s constant
temptations are designed to weaken man’s
government over his own heart, to undermine his
power of self-control. He leads man to break the
bands which connect him in holy, happy union
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