Subordinated to God’s Will—All who have any true sense of what is embraced in being a Christian know that the followers of Christ are under obligation as His disciples to bring all their passions, their physical powers and mental faculties into perfect subordination to His will. Those who are controlled by their passions cannot be followers of Christ. They are too much devoted to the service of their master, the originator of every evil, to leave their corrupt habits and choose the service of Christ.—An Appeal to Mothers, 9, 10 (1864). (Child Guidance, 445, 446.) {1MCP 233.5}

Underordnet Guds vilje. - Alle med virkelig sans for, hvad det vil sige at være en kristen, ved, at de som Kristi disciple er forpligtede til at lade alle lidenskaber, alle legemlige kræfter og intellektuelle evner være fuldstændig underordnede hans (234) vilje. De, der beherskes af deres lidenskaber, kan ikke være Kristi efterfølgere. De er for ivrige i tjenesten for deres herre, det ondes ophavsmand, til at opgive deres fordærvede vaner og vælge tjenesten for Kristus. - AM 9, 10, 1864. (Bih 429.)