We should choose the right because it is right, and leave consequences with God.

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. At the same time he causes them to cherish false conceptions of God so that they regard Him with fear and hate rather than with love. The cruelty inherent in his own character is attributed to the Creator; it is embodied in systems of religion and expressed in modes of worship.

All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

Só podemos receber da luz do Céu, à medida que formos voluntários em nos esvaziar do próprio eu. Não podemos discernir o caráter de Deus, ou aceitar a Cristo pela fé, a menos que consintamos em levar cativo todo pensamento à obediência de Cristo. A todos quantos assim fazem, é o Espírito Santo dado sem medida. {DTN 117.5}

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.