Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

irreligious young women, they will bind
themselves to stumbling blocks. Their usefulness
will be largely crippled, if not utterly destroyed.
Even if the young men themselves succeed in
making an unreserved surrender to God, yet they
will find that they are greatly crippled by being
bound to an untrained, undisciplined, un-Christlike
wife who is dead to God, dead to piety, and dead to
true holiness. Their lives will prove unsatisfying
and unhappy.
Gatherings for amusement confuse faith and
make the motive mixed and uncertain. The Lord
accepts no divided heart. He wants the whole man.
He made all there is of man. He offered a complete
sacrifice to redeem the body and soul of man. That
which He requires of those whom He has created
and redeemed is summed up in these words: “Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ... Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” (Matthew
22:37-39) God will accept nothing less than this.[3]
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