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Effects of Gratitude and Praise, July 30

No human reasoning of the most learned man can define the operations of the Holy Spirit upon human minds and characters, yet they can see the effects upon the life and actions....

Linked to the Infinite One, man is made partaker of the divine nature. Upon him the shafts of evil have no effect; for he is clothed with the panoply of Christ's righteousness. Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 51, 52 .

We owe everything to grace, free grace, sovereign grace. Grace in the covenant ordained our adoption. Grace in the Saviour effected our redemption, our regeneration, and our adoption to heirship with Christ.

The Effect of Receiving the Spirit, April 29

We are not to hide the gospel, or cover the cross of Christ with ornamental roses and thus make the preaching of it of no effect. Manuscript 39, 1895 .

The Lord is a living, personal God. A living, personal Saviour came to our world to make of none effect the specious twistings and serpentine turnings of Satan.— Manuscript 117, September 21, 1898, “A Personal God.”

Prayer an Effective Weapon Against Satan, January 27

One of the most deplorable effects of the original apostasy was that people lost the power of self-control. Only as this power is regained can there be real progress.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 1 Corinthians 1:17 .