“Now Christ will not come to our earth until He has sent a warning of His Coming, and there is to be a wonderful scene that is to take place at His Second Advent.”  4LtMs. Ms 11, 1886, paragraph 3.

 

“When the character of Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim them as His own.” COL:69.

 

“Christ is waiting with longing desire for the manifestation of Himself in His Church.  When the character of the Saviour shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will Come to claim His Own.”  CT:324.3; LDE:39.2.

 

“Christ cannot come in fully, unless there is a full submission to Him. Let there be some dying here.  Let there be some actual dying to self.  That is what it means; it means death:  and of course people never struggle to die.  They struggle to stay alive, if there are any struggles.”  GCB, 1893, Page 299.6.

 

“Christ cannot come until the power and love of God have been demonstrated in the lives of His followers to the same degree as in His Own life.  God will show by means of the Church,-- that is, all true believers in Jesus,-- His power to work perfect righteousness in sinful mortals, thus accomplishing a work even greater than that which Satan set himself to overthrow.”  The Present Truth, Volume 14, September 29, 1898, Page 610, Paragraph 2.