- Discussing Divinely-Inspired Writings -

"Choose poverty, reproach, separation from friends, or any suffering, rather than to defile the soul with sin. Death before dishonor or the transgression of God's law, should be the motto of every Christian."

(Testimonies for the Church 5, 147)

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"The season of distress and anguish before us will require a faith that can endure weariness, delay, and hunger, a faith that will not faint though severely tried. Jacob's victory is an evidence of the power of importunate prayer. All who will lay hold of God's promises, as he did, will succeed as he succeeded. Wrestling with God—how few know what it is! When waves of despair sweep over the suppliant, how few cling with faith to the promises of God."

(Great Controversy,  621)  

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"In the last great conflict of the controversy with Satan those who are loyal to God will see every earthly support cut off. 

Because they refuse to break His law in obedience to earthly powers, they will be forbidden to buy or sell."

(The Desire of Ages, 121, 122)

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"Physicians who claim to understand the human organism ought not to encourage their patients to subsist on the flesh of dead animals. They should point out the increase of disease in the animal kingdom. The testimony of examiners is that very few animals are free from disease, and that the practice of eating largely of meat is contracting diseases of all kinds,—cancers, tumors, scrofula, tuberculosis, and numbers of other like affections."

(Counsels on Diet and Foods, 388.3)

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