Manly Faith: Against Passive Dependence on God

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 9, 1875

Manly Faith: Against Passive Dependence on God

I HAVE come to believe that a man may cast himself too passively upon the bosom even of his God. Our Creator wants a man to be manly. One thing I do know, there are cases where he refuses to answer importunate prayer by anything in return, outer or inner—repels, casts off the suppliant. Not only because that suppliant is selfish in his seeking, but whining, and whimpering, and indulging in a sickly sort of dependence, when he ought to stand up like a man, bear troubles silently, and do known duty stoutly, whatever the duty may be.