"It is right to love beauty and to……" — Ellen G. White
"It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit.""
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175 Quotes by Ellen G. White
Ellen G. White has 175 quotes on this site.
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Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does…
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We should strive to understand the weakness of others.
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Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
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Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.
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True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the…
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A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and…
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Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability…
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Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner.…
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What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full…
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The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by…
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Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by…
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The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony…
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More Adorning Quotes
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It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
— Clement of Alexandria
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May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of…
— Al-Ghazali
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To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates…
— Paul Watson
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What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast…
— Walt Whitman
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The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with…
— William Blake
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For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for…
— Bhartrhari
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Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with…
— Dan Fogelberg
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Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning…
— Jean Kerr
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If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because…
— Isabel Allende
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The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold…
— Thomas Hood
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