Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 1—The Study of the Mind Chapter 6—A Healthy Normality (Part 2) Faculties of Mind to Rule the Body—True education includes the whole being. It teaches the right use of one’s self. It enables us to make the best use of brain, bone, and muscle, of body, mind, and heart. The faculties of the mind,Continue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 1—The Study of the Mind Chapter 6—A Healthy Normality The Source of True Happiness—There are persons with a diseased imagination to whom religion is a tyrant, ruling them as with a rod of iron. Such are constantly mourning over their depravity and groaning over supposed evil. Love does not exist in their hearts; aContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 1—The Study of the Mind Chapter 4—Spiritual Influences and the Mind (Part 3) What Religion Does—True religion ennobles the mind, refines the taste, sanctifies the judgment, and makes its possessor a partaker of the purity and the holiness of Heaven. It brings angels near and separates us more and more from the spirit andContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 1—The Study of the Mind Chapter 3—Dangers in Psychology (Part  3) A Power for Good, a Power for Evil—The influence of mind on mind, so strong a power for good when sanctified, is equally strong for evil in the hands of those opposed to God. This power Satan used in his work of instillingContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 1—The Study of the Mind Chapter 3—Dangers in Psychology (Part  2) The Artful Insinuation Versus the Open, Bold Attack—If Satan were to make an open and bold attack upon Christianity, it would bring the Christian at once to the feet of his Mighty Deliverer, who alone could put the adversary to flight. He doesContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 1—The Study of the Mind Chapter 2—The Christian and Psychology Laws of the Mind Ordained by God—He who created the mind and ordained its laws, provided for its development in accordance with them. [Note: There is perfect harmony between the Bible and true science. Psychology is the science and study of the mind andContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 1—The Study of the Mind Chapter 1—Its Importance The Nicest Work—To deal with minds is the nicest work in which men ever engaged.—Testimonies for the Church 3:269 (1873).  To Know the Laws That Govern Mind and Body—It is the duty of every person, for his own sake and for the sake of humanity, toContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”