Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

out of their hearts, they would not be so weak. If
our sisters would feel the necessity of purifying
their thoughts, and never suffer in themselves a
carelessness of deportment which leads to
improper acts, they need not in the least stain their
purity. If they viewed the matter as God has
presented it to me, they would have such an
abhorrence of impure acts that they would not be
found among those who fall through the
temptations of Satan, no matter whom he might
select as the medium.
A preacher may be dealing in sacred, holy
things, and yet not be holy in heart. He may give
himself to Satan to work wickedness and to corrupt
the souls and bodies of his flock. Yet if the minds
of women and youth professing to love and fear
God were fortified with His Spirit, if they had
trained their minds to purity of thought and
educated themselves to avoid all appearance of
evil, they would be safe from any improper
advances and be secure from the corruption
prevailing around them. The apostle Paul wrote
concerning himself, “But I keep under my body,
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