Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

the soul and let the sunlight of God’s love come in
to illuminate the darkened chambers of the mind.
The most exalted spiritual truths may be brought
home to the heart by the things of nature. The birds
of the air, the flowers of the field in their glowing
beauty, the springing grain, the fruitful branches of
the vine, the trees putting forth their tender buds,
the glorious sunset, the crimson clouds predicting a
fair morrow, the recurring seasons—all these may
teach us precious lessons of trust and faith. The
imagination has here a fruitful field in which to
range. The intelligent mind may contemplate with
the greatest satisfaction those lessons of divine
truth which the world’s Redeemer has associated
with the things of nature.
Christ sharply reproved the men of His time
because they had not learned from nature the
spiritual lessons which they might have learned.
All things, animate and inanimate, express to man
the knowledge of God. The same divine mind that
is working upon the things of nature is speaking to
the minds and hearts of men and creating an
inexpressible craving for something they have not.
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