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

the Scriptures. You despise and reject the
testimonies because they reprove your darling sins
and disturb your self-complacency.
When Christ is cherished in the heart, His
likeness will be revealed in the life. Humility will
reign where pride was once predominant.
Submission, meekness, patience, will soften down
the rugged features of a naturally perverse,
impetuous disposition. Love to Jesus will be
manifested in love to His people. It is not fitful, not
spasmodic, but calm and deep and strong.
The life of the Christian will be divested of all
pretense, free from all affectation, artifice, and
falsehood. It is earnest, true, sublime. Christ speaks
in every word. He is seen in every deed. The life is
radiant with the light of an indwelling Saviour. In
converse with God and in happy contemplation of
heavenly things the soul is preparing for heaven
and laboring to gather other souls into the fold of
Christ. Our Saviour is able and willing to do for us
more than we can ask or even think.—Testimonies
for the Church 5:49, 50 (1882).
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