Levity Inappropriate—The minister of God is not to speak words which will create levity. We have been bought with the price of a great sacrifice, even the sacrifice of God’s only begotten Son.—Manuscript 19, 1910.
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No Light, Trifling Words—The minister of the gospel who is a laborer together with God, will learn daily in the school of Christ ∙∙∙ .No light, trifling words will fall from his lips; for is he not an ambassador for Christ, bearing a divine message to perishing souls? All jesting and joking, all lightness and trifling, is painful to the cross-bearing disciple of Christ.—Evangelism, 206, 207.
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Conversation in Heaven—All lightness and trifling is positively forbidden in the Word of God. His conversation should be in heaven, his words seasoned with grace.—Testimonies for the Church 2:338.
(VSS 269.3)
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A Worthy Example for Youth—Ministers should set the youth a worthy example, one corresponding to their holy calling ∙∙∙ . They are to put away all coarseness, all trifling, ever remembering that they are educators; that, whether they will or not, their words and acts are to those with whom they come in contact a savor of life or of death.—Gospel Workers, 126.
(VSS 269.4)
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