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… to man to violate the laws of his being. But man, through yielding to Satan's temptations to indulge intemperance, brings the higher faculties into subjection …

… deprive man of the freedom of choice would be to rob him of his prerogative as an intelligent being and make him a mere automaton. It is not God's purpose to …

… all. Man was only an agent, a feeble instrument, in His hands. The power and excellence were all of God. God saw in man a continual disposition to depart from, and …

… made man upright; but he has fallen, and become degraded, because he refuses to yield obedience to the sacred claims which the law of God has upon him. All the …

… with man according to his corrupt ways, who could live in His sight? What if we had been less cautious and carried the case of this man before God while he was …

… of Man —While Christ opens heaven to man, the life which He imparts opens the heart of man to heaven. Sin not only shuts us away from God, but destroys in the human …

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? Matthew 16:26 .

Above all lower orders of being, God designed that man, the crowning work of His creation, should express His thought and reveal His glory. But man is not to exalt himself as God.

… , “Never man spake like this man.” The people listened to Him gladly.— Testimonies for the Church 5:746, 747 (1889) .

Individual Measurement —No man can grow up to the full stature of a man for another. Each must reach his own individual measurement for himself. Each is to grow up under God's supervision.— Manuscript 116, 1898 .