Counsels to Patents, Teachers and Students Quotes

“To many who place their children in our schools, strong temptations will come because they desire them to secure what the world regards as the most essential education. To these I would say, Bring your children to the simplicity of the word, and they will be safe. This Book is the foundation of all true knowledge. The highest education they can receive is to learn how to add to their “faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.”
― Ellen G. White, Counsels to Parents, Teachers and Students

“The student of the word should not make his opinions a center around which truth is to revolve. He should not search for the purpose of finding texts of Scripture that he can construe to prove his theories, for this is wresting the Scriptures to his own destruction.”
― Ellen G. White, Counsels to Parents, Teachers and Students

“Let the student take one verse and concentrate his mind on ascertaining the thought that God has put into that verse for him, and then dwell upon the thought until it becomes his own. One passage thus studied until its significance becomes clear is of more value than the perusal of many chapters with no definite purpose in view and no positive instruction gained.”
― Ellen G. White, Counsels to Parents, Teachers and Students

“The mind will enlarge if it is employed in tracing out the relation of the subjects of the Bible to one another, comparing scripture with scripture, and spiritual things with spiritual.”
― Ellen G. White, Counsels to Parents, Teachers and Students

“Men are changed in accordance with what they contemplate.”
― Ellen G. White, Counsels to Parents, Teachers and Students