Youth and children of both sexes engage in moral pollution, and practice this disgusting, soul-and-body-destroying vice. Many professed Christians are so benumbed by the same practice that their moral sensibilities cannot be aroused to understand that it is sin, and that if continued its sure results will be utter shipwreck of body and mind. Man, the noblest being upon the earth, formed in the image of God, transforms himself into a beast! He makes himself gross and corrupt. Every Christian will have to learn to restrain his passions and be controlled by principle. Unless he does this he is unworthy of the Christian name. {2T 347.1}

Har Jesus givet sig selv for os? Er en stor pris blevet betalt for vor genløsning? Og forholder det sig således, at vi ikke tilhører os selv? Er det sandt, at alle kræfter i vort væsen, vort legeme, vor ånd, alt, hvad vi har og alt, hvad vi er, hører Gud til? Ja, visselig. Og når vi fatter dette, hvilken forpligtelse stiller det os ikke under, over for Gud til at bevare os selv i den tilstand, at vi her på jorden kan ære ham i vore legemer og i vor ånd, som tilhører ham!