Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

holiness of heart, the precious, saving truth for
these last days, the grace of Christ—these are
subjects which may animate the soul and cause the
pure in heart to feel that joy which the disciples felt
when Jesus came and walked with them as they
traveled toward Emmaus.
He who has centered his affections upon Christ
will relish this kind of hallowed association and
will gather divine strength by such intercourse; but
he who has no relish for this kind of conversation
and who is best pleased to talk sentimental
nonsense has wandered far away from God and is
becoming dead to holy and noble aspirations. The
sensual, the earthly, is interpreted by such to be
heavenly.—Testimonies for the Church 5:600
(1889).
Reaching Out for Human Sympathy.—When
the conversation is of a frivolous character and
savors of a dissatisfied reaching out after human
sympathy and appreciation, it springs from lovesick
sentimentalism, and neither the youth nor the
men with gray hairs are secure. When the truth of
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