Ellen Gould White 
Desire of Ages 
The Conflict of the Ages Illustrated in the Life of Christ

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In the hearts of all mankind, of whatever race or station in life, there are inexpressible longings for something they do not now possess. This longing is implanted in the very constitution Of man by a merci ful God, that man may not be satisfied with his pres ent conditions or attainments, whether bad, or good, or better. God desires that the human shall seek the best, and find it to the eternal blessing of his soul. Satan, by Wily scheme and craft, has perverted these longings Of the human heart. He makes men be lieve that this desire may be satisfied by pleasure, by wealth, by ease, by fame, by power; but those who have been thus deceived by him (and they number myriads) find all these things pall upon the sense, leaving the soul as barren and unsatisfied as before. It is God’s design that this longing of the human heart should lead to the One who alone is able to satisfy it. The desire is of Him, that it may lead to Him, the fulness and fulfilment of that desire. That fulness is found in jesus the Christ, the Son Of the Eternal God. For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in Him should all the fulness dwe11; for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bod ily. And it is also true that in Him ye are made full with respect to every desire divinely implanted and normally followed.