Aphorisms of Encouragement

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Aphorisms of Encouragement

Short aphorisms

  • Make a beginning. The oak is in the acorn. 6T145
  • God never leads His children otherwise than they would choose to be led, if they could see the end from the beginning, and discern the glory of the purpose which they are fulfilling as coworkers with Him. MH479.
  • Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us of which we know nothing. Those who accept the one principle of making the service of God supreme, will find perplexities vanish and a plain path before their feet. MH481.
  • I worry nothing about the future, but try to do my duty for today. Letter 81, 1888.
  • One soul is of more value than the entire world. 2T541
  • No one sees the hand that lifts the burden. DA173
  • This world is not the Christian’s heaven, but merely the workshop of God, where we are to be fitted up to unite with sinless angels in a holy heaven. 2T187
  • The perfect fruit of faith, meekness, and love often matures best amid storm clouds and darkness.MLT56/COL61
  • To all who are reaching out to feel the guiding hand of God, the moment of greatest discouragement is the time when divine help is nearest. DA528.
  • The trials of life are God’s workmen to remove the impurities, infirmities, and roughness from our characters, and fit them for the society of pure, heavenly angels in glory. MLT92
  • God never leads His children otherwise than they would choose to be led, if they could see the end from the beginning, and discern the glory of the purpose which they are fulfilling as co-workers with Him. DA225
  • …from the Christian standpoint, love is power. Intellectual and spiritual strength are involved in this principle. Pure love has special efficacy to do good. MLT 179
  • Nothing is apparently more helpless, yet really more invincible, than the soul that feels its nothingness, and relies wholly on the merits of the Saviour. God would send every angel in heaven to the aid of such an one, rather than allow him to be overcome. 7T17

Long aphorisms

  • … amid the working of evil, God’s purposes move steadily forward to their accomplishment; to all created intelligences He is making manifest His justice and benevolence. PP 338
  • It will be seen that all the dealings of God have been conducted with reference to the eternal good of His people, and the good of all the worlds that He has created. PP 338

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