"As the condition of the people began to open to His mind, He saw that the requirements of society and the requirements of God were in constant collision." DA 84.
"The question now to be asked is, Are the professed followers of Christ complying with the conditions upon which the blessing is pronounced? Are they separating in spirit and practice from the world? How hard to come out and be separate from worldly habits and customs!" FW 41.
"I had relatives and friends there who did not realize the necessity of renouncing the customs of society to obey the commandments of God." RH January 13, 1885.
"Learn not the way of the heathen. . . . For the customs of the people are vain." Jeremiah 10:2, 3.
"Commit not any one of these abominable customs." Leviticus 18:30.
"When the Lord requires us to be distinct and peculiar, how can we crave popularity or seek to imitate the customs and practices of the world?" 6T 143.
"Errors may be hoary with age; but age does not make error truth, nor truth error. Altogether too long have the old customs and habits been followed." 6T 142.
"We are not at liberty to teach that which shall meet the world's standard or the standard of the church, simply because it is the custom to do so." 6T 142.
"Customs, practices, and fashions which lead the soul away from God have been for years gaining ground in defiance of the warnings and entreaties of the Holy Spirit, until at last their ways have become right in their own eyes, and the Spirit's voice is scarcely heard." 5T 103.
"Men have allowed their minds to become so darkened and confused by conformity to worldly customs and influences that they seem to have lost all power to discriminate between light and darkness, truth and error." PK 178.
"So long have men worshiped human opinions and human institutions that almost the whole world is following after idols." PK 186.
"Those who have yielded step by step to worldly demands and conformed to worldly customs will then yield to the powers that be, rather than subject themselves to derision, insult, threatened imprisonment, and death." PK 188.
"Many are saying by their course of action, that the line of demarkation between Christians and the world must not be too distinct. They conform to the customs and unite in the pursuits of the lovers of pleasure, in order to retain their friendship, and exert an influence to win them to the truth. The plea is not new. The same work has been often attempted since the opposing forces of good and evil first existed in the world. The result has ever been the same. Conformity to worldly customs converts the church to the world. It never converts the world to Christ." RH June 20, 1882.
"Many who imitate the customs and fashions of the world claim that they do this in order to have an influence with worldlings. But here they make a sad a fatal mistake. If they would have a true and saving influence, let them . . . make wide the distinction between the Christian and the world." RH December 12, 1882.
"We are not to elevate our standard just a little above the world's standard, but we are to make the distinction decidedly apparent. The reason we have had so little influence upon unbelieving relatives and associates is that there has been so little decided difference between our practices and those of the world." 6T 146, 147.
"There is constant danger that professing Christians will come to think that in order to have influence with worldlings, they must to a certain extent conform to the world. But though such a course may appear to afford great advantages, it always ends in spiritual loss. Against every subtle influence that seeks entrance by means of flattering inducements from the enemies of truth, God's people must strictly guard. They are pilgrims and strangers in this world, traveling a path beset with danger. To the ingenious subterfuges and alluring inducements held out to tempt from allegiance, they must give no heed." PK 570.
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