The following are all the quotes I found in reading thru all the Youth Instructor articles by Ellen White. The articles start on August 1, 1852, and end on June 9, 1914. AI has told me there are 470 articles in this collection, accounting for the fact that it took me 8 months to read them all! They are in order from most recent to oldest.
As you can quickly gather from reading these, the things that struck me most were how little things are important to God, how we must “be” good, how the Israelite nation was cut off at the cross, and how Christ knew his mission from a little child.
Youth Instructor
God wants us to be good and to do good. YI April 28, 1908
God does not stand toward the sinner as an executor of the sentence against transgression YI November 13, 1906
The people of God will enter into no controversy with the world over this matter (Sunday) YI July 12, 1904
Make right eating and right drinking a part of your religion. Thus you place yourselves where God can enable you to distinguish between right and wrong. YI January 1, 1903
There is nothing so offensive to God, or so dangerous to the soul, as pride and self-sufficiency. YI June 5, 1902
Idleness is sin. YI January 31, 1901
The entire chapter (Isaiah 53) should be committed to memory. YI December 20, 1900
Being good and doing good are indispensable to the perfection of character. YI October 25, 1900
When upon the cross Christ cried out, “It is finished!” and the veil of the temple was rent in twain, the Holy Watcher declared that the Jewish people had rejected him YI June 7, 1900
The crown of thorns encircling his brow was the symbol of his anointing as the great High Priest. YI February 8, 1900
His last hope for the Jewish nation was gone. Nothing could avert her doom. YI February 1, 1900
Strength of character consists of two things—power of will and power of self-control. YI December 7, 1899
The faithful servant, who invests his talent in the cause of God, who uses his money to the glory of God, will receive the commendation, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant; … enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” What will be this joy of the Lord?—It will be the joy of seeing souls saved in the kingdom of God. YI November 23, 1899
The reason we do so little in winning souls to Christ is that we have so little of Christ in us. YI November 2, 1899
From the time of this decision (to end Christ’s life), the protection of God was withdrawn from the Jewish nation. The restraint of his Holy Spirit was removed. YI May 25, 1899
Though not favorable to Christ, the Sadducees had not been so full of malignity toward him as were the Pharisees. YI May 11, 1899
By shedding Jesus’ blood the Jewish people were about to divorce themselves from heaven. YI April 27, 1899
This psalm (66) and portions of the sixty-eighth and seventy-second psalms were often sung by Christ. YI September 8, 1898
Death is looked upon by Christ as sleep,—silence, darkness, sleep. YI August 4, 1898
According to the teaching of the Scriptures, it dishonors God to address ministers as “reverend.” YI July 7, 1898
The student should place himself in school, if he can, through his own exertions, pay his way as he goes. He should study one year, and then work out for himself the problem of what constitutes true education. YI March 31, 1898, par. 2 – YI March 31, 1898
From eternity there was a complete unity between the Father and the Son. They were two, yet little short of being identical; two in individuality, yet one in spirit, and heart, and character. YI December 16, 1897
When the human will co-operates with the will of God, it becomes omnipotent, and the worker can make opportunities. YI June 24, 1897
Great truth can be brought into little things; practical religion must be carried into the lowly duties of daily life. And in the performance of these duties, you are forming characters that will stand the test of the Judgment. Then, in whatever position you may be placed, whatever your duties may be, do them nobly and faithfully, realizing that all heaven is beholding your work. YI January 28, 1897
It is the duty of those who are slow in their movements to improve in this respect. The Lord has said, “Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.” YI January 28, 1897
There is great danger in indifference upon this subject; no folly is so subtle as thoughtlessness and levity. YI October 8, 1896
In the parable, the foolish virgins are represented as begging for oil, and failing to receive it at their request. This is symbolic of those who have not prepared themselves by developing a character to stand in a time of crisis. It is as if they should go to their neighbors and say, Give me your character, or I shall be lost. YI January 16, 1896
Those who cherish that which is right, who work out God’s plan though it be in a narrow sphere of action, and who do right because it is right, will find wider fields of usefulness. YI January 2, 1896
Failing to convince him that he ought to look upon human tradition as sacred, they came to Joseph and Mary, and complained that Jesus was taking a wrong course in regard to their customs and traditions. YI December 5, 1895
The Lord does not propose to save us in companies. YI October 17, 1895
The Jewish nation who rejected Christ committed the unpardonable sin, YI August 8, 1895
The working out of the principle of love is true sanctification. YI November 8, 1894
I am lost in Adam, but restored in Christ. YI November 8, 1894
God requires that every man, woman, and youth should perfect a Christian character. The command is, “Be ye holy; for I am holy.” YI January 25, 1894
Reproof must come to the wrong-doer, and those who are faithful ministers of God will have to deal with men in a close way if they are faithful to their charge… But every minister is under the responsibility of reproving and correcting the erring. If he shunned this duty, the blood of souls would be upon his garments. YI December 14, 1893
God destroys no man; but after a time the wicked are given up to the destruction they have wrought for themselves. YI November 30, 1893
Books from the pens of infidels should have no place in the libraries of those who would serve God. YI November 23, 1893, par. 4 – YI November 23, 1893
To argue with persons who are established in infidel principles, is of no avail; for as fast as you overthrow one point, Satan suggests to them another criticism. YI November 23, 1893
Christ respectfully lay back the censure, saying, “How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” Mary knew that Christ did not refer to Joseph. In this assertion, he made it manifest that he did not recognize Joseph as his father, but claimed God as his Father; and for the first time he spoke to them of the mission which he came on earth to fulfil. YI July 13, 1893
The parents of Jesus went up every year to Jerusalem to keep the feast of the passover. ” YI July 13, 1893
Unless the truth of God is received in the heart and carried out in practical life, it is not truth to the one to whom it has been presented, but only a delusion. YI June 22, 1893
Do not be slack; for the habit will grow upon you, and be made manifest not only in your outward affairs, but in your spiritual life. YI September 29, 1892
There is hope for us only as we come under the Abrahamic covenant, which is the covenant of grace by faith in Christ Jesus. The gospel preached to Abraham, through which he had hope, was the same gospel that is preached to us today, through which we have hope. YI September 22, 1892
The pure and holy garments are not prepared to be put on by any one after he has entered the gate of the city. All who enter will have on the robe of Christ’s righteousness YI August 18, 1886
Notwithstanding the sacred mission of Christ, his exalted relationship with God, of which he was fully aware YI February 1, 1873, par. 5
But Ellen (not White) kept the only Sabbath the Lord ever gave to man—the seventh day—and because her mortal career ended upon the first day of the week it was no token of her Heavenly Father’s displeasure YI April 1, 1859
God has shown me in vision the withering effects of this unprofitable reading. YI June 1, 1856