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Chapter 10—Reasons to Pray

Unable to Give an Intelligent Reason for Faith

This is the faith that we need. But if you stop to explain everything and reason out every point, you will die in your sins, because you will never be satisfied.

… that reason and conscience are overborne by the sensual impulses.— Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 134, 1890. ( Counsels on Diet and Foods, 243 .)

But it is for you to hold every emotion and passion under control, in calm subjection to reason and conscience. Then Satan loses his power to control the mind.— The Review and Herald, June 14, 1892. ( Our High Calling, 87 .)

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow....

Beginning at Moses ... Christ expounded in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.... Reasoning from prophecy, Christ gave His disciples a correct idea of what He was to be in humanity....

Chapter 18—No Complicated Reasoning nor Argument

Purity and Simplicity —Our work should be to embrace every opportunity to present the truth in its purity and simplicity where there is any desire or interest to hear the reasons of our faith.— Testimonies for the Church 3:214 .

Prudence and Dignity —“For this reason I entreat your imperial majesty, with all humility, to allow me time, that I may answer without offending against the Word of God.”