Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Those who serve God in sincerity and truth will
be a peculiar people, unlike the world, separate
from the world. Their food will be prepared, not to
encourage gluttony or gratify a perverted taste, but
to secure to themselves the greatest physical
strength, and consequently the best mental
conditions....
Excessive indulgence in eating and drinking is
sin. Our heavenly Father has bestowed upon us the
great blessing of health reform, that we may glorify
Him by obeying the claims He has upon us. It is
the duty of those who have received the light upon
this important subject to manifest greater interest
for those who are still suffering for want of
knowledge. Those who are looking for the soon
appearing of their Saviour should be the last to
manifest a lack of interest in this great work of
reform. The harmonious, healthy action of all the
powers of body and mind results in happiness; the
more elevated and refined the powers, the more
pure and unalloyed the happiness. An aimless life
is a living death. The mind should dwell upon
themes relating to our eternal interests. This will be
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