We All Can Reach

Perfection of character is attainable by everyone who strives for it. {AG 141.4} {1SM 211.2}

None need fail of attaining, in his sphere, to perfection of Christian character. By the sacrifice of Christ, provision has been made for the believer to receive all things that pertain to life and godliness. God calls upon us to reach the standard of perfection and places before us the example of Christ's character. {AA 531.2}

We can overcome. Yes; fully, entirely. Jesus died to make a way of escape for us, that we might overcome every evil temper, every sin, every temptation, and sit down at last with Him. {1T 144.2}

God desires us to reach the standard of perfection made possible for us by the gift of Christ. {MH 114.4}

At infinite cost, provision has been made that men shall reach the perfection of Christian character. Those who have been privileged to hear the truth, and have been impressed by the Holy Spirit to receive the Holy Scriptures as the voice of God, have no excuse for becoming dwarfs in the religious life. {RH, May 5, 1896 par. 1}

This sacrifice was offered for the purpose of restoring man to his original perfection; yea, more. It was offered to give him an entire transformation of character, making him more than a conqueror. Those who in the strength of Christ overcome the great enemy of God and man, will occupy a position in the heavenly courts above angels who have never fallen. {SD 242.4}

Christ came to this world to show that by receiving power from on high, man can live an unsullied life. With unwearying patience and sympathetic helpfulness He met men in their necessities. By the gentle touch of grace He banished from the soul unrest and doubt, changing enmity to love, and unbelief to confidence. {MH 25.1}

Christ gave His own life to make it possible for man to be restored to the image of God. {LLM 378.1}

By the power of the Holy Spirit the moral image of God is to be perfected in the character. We are to be wholly transformed into the likeness of Christ. {TM 506.1}

The Holy Spirit ever abides with him who is seeking for perfection of Christian character. The Holy Spirit furnishes the pure motive, the living, active principle, that sustains striving, wrestling, believing souls in every emergency and under every temptation. The Holy Spirit sustains the believer amid the world's hatred, amid the unfriendliness of relatives, amid disappointment, amid the realization of imperfection, and amid the mistakes of life. {RH, November 30, 1897 par. 10}

When a soul receives Christ, he receives power to live the life of Christ. {COL 314.5}

Exceeding great is our salvation for ample provision has been made through the righteousness of Christ, that we may be pure, entire, wanting nothing.... If man will keep God's law through faith in Christ, the treasures of heaven will be at his disposal. {SD 45.2}

“… those who say that it is not possible to live a perfect life, throw upon God the imputation of injustice and untruth.” RH Feb. 7, 1957

Satan is jubilant when he hears the professed followers of Christ making excuses for their deformity of character. It is these excuses that lead to sin. There is no excuse for sinning. A holy temper, a Christ like life, is accessible to every repenting, believing child of God. {DA 311.3}

Therefore he is constantly seeking to deceive the followers of Christ with his fatal sophistry that it is impossible for them to overcome. {GC 489.2}

The human agent sees what he has to contend with--a strange power opposed to the idea of attaining the perfection that Christ holds out. (MS 89, 1903). {6BC 1098.2}

“The enemy of God is not willing that this truth should be clearly presented; for he knows that if the people receive it, His power will be broken.” RH Sept. 3, 1889