Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

The violation of physical law, with its
consequent suffering and premature death, has so
long prevailed that these results are regarded as the
appointed lot of humanity; but God did not create
the race in such a feeble condition. This state of
things is not the work of Providence, but of man. It
has been brought about by wrong habits —by
violating the laws that God has made to govern
man’s existence. A continual transgression of
nature’s laws is a continual transgression of the law
of God. Had men always been obedient to the law
of the Ten Commandments, carrying out in their
lives the principles of those precepts, the curse of
disease now flooding the world would not exist....
When men take any course which needlessly
expends their vitality or beclouds their intellect,
they sin against God; they do not glorify Him in
their body and spirit, which are His. Yet despite the
insult which man has offered Him, God’s love is
still extended to the race, and He permits light to
shine, enabling man to see that in order to live a
perfect life he must obey the natural laws which
govern his being. How important, then, that man
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