"In all cases educate the conscience, enlist the will, supply good, wholesome food, and the change will be readily made, and the demand for flesh will soon cease. MH 317.1"
"Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."
The passage emphasizes educating the conscience and enlisting the will, which aligns with the idea of seeking truth and wisdom.
"pure, refined, and holy, that they may have the companionship of heavenly angels, continue to use as food anything that has so harmful an effect on soul and body? How can they take the life of God's creatures that they may consume the flesh as a luxury? Let them, rather, return to the wholesome and delicious food given to man in the beginning, and themselves practice, and teach their children to practice, mercy toward the dumb creatures that God has made and has placed under our dominion. MH 317.2"
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s."
The passage questions how those who seek purity can consume harmful foods, echoing the idea that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit and should be treated with respect.