Ellen Gould White
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Ellen Gould White über: "Find quotations from Ellen G. White for an encouraging message: true national healing begins with personal repentance and awakening; families and congregations should act in Christlike ways within their communities; freedom of conscience and religion must be upheld; church and state should not be forcibly united; prayer should lead to obedience to God’s law; and the seventh-day Sabbath should be faithfully observed without political coercion. Provide precise sources, especially chapters 35–36 of The Great Controversy."
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True spiritual renewal and national stability begin with genuine individual repentance and heart religion, leading believers to reflect Christ's character and minister compassionately within their communities. God's Word upholds the sacred inviolability of conscience and warns against the perilous union of church and state to mandate religious practices. Through earnest prayer and active faithfulness, Christians are called to defend religious liberty and honor the seventh-day Sabbath in voluntary obedience to divine authority rather than through civil coercion.
Personal Repentance and the Revival of Heart Religion
»There is need today of such a revival of true heart religion as was experienced by ancient Israel. Repentance is the first step that must be taken by all who would return to God. No one can do this work for another. We must individually humble our souls before God and put away our idols. When we have done all that we can do, the Lord will manifest to us His salvation.«
Christlike Ministry and Practical Awakening
»There is need of personal religion, of repentance, of faith and love. I plead that there be a general awakening among us as a people. In the strength that Christ imparts, we should be able to teach others also how to wrestle with those passions which the light of heaven shows them must be mortified.... It should ever be kept before them that their work is not only to relieve physical suffering, but to minister to souls that are ready to perish. It is important that everyone who is to act as a medical missionary be skilled in ministering to the soul as well as to the body. He is to be an imitator of Christ, presenting to the sick and suffering the preciousness of pure and undefiled religion.«
The Inalienable Right of Conscience
»The framers of the Constitution recognized the eternal principle that man's relation to his God is above human legislation, and his right of conscience inalienable. Reasoning was not necessary to establish this truth; we are conscious of it in our own bosom. It is this consciousness, which, in defiance of human laws, has sustained so many martyrs in tortures and flames. They felt that their duty to God was superior to human enactments, and that man could exercise no authority over their consciences.«
Warning Against the Enforced Union of Church and State
»The dignitaries of church and State will unite to bribe, persuade, or compel all classes to honor the Sunday. The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments. Political corruption is destroying love of justice and regard for truth; and even in free America, rulers and legislators, in order to secure public favor, will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance. Liberty of conscience, which has cost so great a sacrifice, will no longer be respected.«
The Sabbath as the Test of Loyalty to God
»The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty; for it is the point of truth especially controverted. When the final test shall be brought to bear upon men, then the line of distinction will be drawn between those who serve God and those who serve him not. While the observance of the false sabbath in compliance with the law of the State, contrary to the fourth commandment, will be an avowal of allegiance to a power that is in opposition to God, the keeping of the true Sabbath, in obedience to God's law, is an evidence of loyalty to the Creator.«
Earnest Prayer Combined with Active Preservation of Liberty
»We are not doing the will of God if we sit in quietude, doing nothing to preserve liberty of conscience. Fervent, effectual prayer should be ascending to heaven that this calamity may be deferred until we can accomplish the work which has so long been neglected. Let there be most earnest prayer, and then let us work in harmony with our prayers.... Shall we not humble our hearts greatly before God, flee to the mercy seat, and plead with Him to reveal His mighty power?«
Original Sources (English)
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