Open them heavenward.

The more you talk faith, the more faith you will have. The more you dwell upon discouragement, talking to others about your trials, and enlarging upon them, to enlist the sympathy which you crave, the more discouragements and trials you will have. Why mourn over that which we cannot avoid? God is inviting us to close the windows of the soul earthward and open them heavenward that He may flood our hearts with the glory which is shining across the threshold of heaven.– Ellen G. White, MS 102, 1901

Talk faith.

“Talk and act as if your faith was invincible.” — Ellen G. White, COL p.146

A sure remedy.

“For the disheartened there is a sure remedy–faith, prayer, work. Faith and activity will impart assurance and satisfaction that will increase day by day…. In the darkest days, when appearances seem most forbidding, fear not. Have faith in God.
Christ did not fail, neither was He discouraged, and His followers are to manifest a faith of the same enduring nature. . . . They are to despair of nothing, and to hope for everything.” — Ellen G. White, FLB p. 156.

Every action.

“Every action, good or bad, prepares the way for its repetition.” — Ellen G. White, T5 p. 119

Moral madness.

“It is moral madness to prefer the praise of men to the favor of God, the rewards of iniquity to the treasures of heaven, the husks of sin to the spiritual food God gives His children.” — Ellen G. White, ST May 19, 1881.

Better than life.

“Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.” — Psalms 63:3

More than food.

“Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.” — Job 23:12

A loveless religion.

Let ministers go before God in prayer, confessing their sins, and with all the simplicity of a little child ask for the blessings that they need. Plead for the warmth of Christ’s love, and then bring it into your discourses; and let no one have occasion to go away and say that the doctrines you believe unfit you for expressing sympathy with suffering humanity–that you have a loveless religion. — Ellen G. White, Pastoral Ministry, p. 196

What should I do?

“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.” — Samuel Johnson

Confession of ignorance

“Confession of ignorance is a disgrace to no man, but to make no effort to escape from it, is inexcusable.” — John D. Snyder, I Love Books, p. 359