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Healthful Living
157. Eating, drinking, and dressing all have a direct bearing upon
our spiritual advancement.—
The Youth’s Instructor, May 31, 1894
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158. By indulging in a wrong course of action in eating and
drinking, thousands upon thousands are ruining their health, and not
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only is their health ruined, but their morals are corrupted, because
diseased blood flows through their veins.—
Unpublished Testimonies,
August 30, 1896
. Morals Corrupted.
159. Overeating prevents the free flow of thought and words, and
that intensity of feeling which is so necessary in order to impress the
truth upon the heart of the hearer.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:310
.
160. Excessive eating of even the best of food will produce a
morbid condition of the moral feelings.... Wrong habits of eating and
drinking lead to errors in thought and action. Indulgence of appetite
strengthens the animal propensities, giving them the ascendency over
the mental and spiritual powers.... Everything that conflicts with nat-
ural law creates a diseased condition of the soul.—
The Review and
Herald, January 25, 1881
.
161. Irregularity in eating and drinking, and improper dressing,
deprave the mind and corrupt the heart, and bring the noble attributes
of the soul in slavery to the animal passions.—
The Health Reformer,
October 1, 1871
.
162. If those who profess to be Christians desire to solve the
questions so perplexing to them,—why their minds are so dull, why
their religious aspirations are so feeble,—they need not, in many
instances, go farther than the table; here is cause enough, if there were
no other.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 83
.
163. A religious life can be more successfully gained and main-
tained if flesh meats are discarded; for a meat diet stimulates into
intense activity lustful propensities, and enfeebles the spiritual and
moral nature.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
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164. Children reared in a healthful way are much more easily con-
trolled than those who are indulged in eating everything their appetite
craves, and at all times. They are usually cheerful, contented, and
healthy. Even the most stubborn, passionate, and wayward have be-
come submissive, patient, and possessed of self-control by persistently
following up this order of diet, united with a firm but kind management
in regard to other matters.—
The Health Reformer, May 1, 1877
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