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

Testimonies for the Church 4:97, 98 (1876).
To Strain Every Muscle.—Man is allotted a
part in this great struggle for everlasting life; he
must respond to the working of the Holy Spirit. It
will require a struggle to break through the powers
of darkness, and the Spirit works in him to
accomplish this. But man is no passive being, to be
saved in indolence. He is called upon to strain
every muscle and exercise every faculty in the
struggle for immortality; yet it is God that supplies
the efficiency.
No human being can be saved in indolence.
The Lord bids us, “Strive to enter in at the strait
gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in,
and shall not be able” (Luke 13:24). “Wide is the
gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find
it” (Matthew 7:13, 14).—MS 16, 1896.
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