Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 17—Heredity and Environment (Part 3) Shun Evil Associations—Few realize the importance of shunning, so far as possible, all associations unfriendly to religious life. In choosing their surroundings few make their spiritual prosperity the first consideration. Parents flock with their families to the cities because they fancy it easier to obtainContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
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Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 17—Heredity and Environment (Part 2) Children Inherit Inclinations—Children inherit inclinations to wrong, but they also have many lovely traits of character. These should be strengthened and developed, while the tendencies to evil should be carefully guarded against and repressed. Children should never be flattered, for flattery is poison to them; butContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 3—Development of the Mind Chapter 15—Emotional Factors Control of Inward Emotions—You may be cheerful if you will bring even your thoughts into subjection to the will of Christ. You should make no delay but closely search your own heart and die to self daily. You may inquire: How can I master my own actionsContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 3—Development of the Mind Chapter 15—Emotional Factors Obedience to God Delivers From Passion and Impulse—Obedience to God is liberty from the thralldom of sin, deliverance from human passion and impulse. Man may stand conqueror of himself, conqueror of his own inclinations, conqueror of principalities and powers, and of “the rulers of the darkness ofContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 3—Development of the Mind Chapter 14—Exercise (Part 2) Exercise Is a Remedial Agent—When invalids have nothing to occupy their time and attention, their thoughts become centered upon themselves, and they grow morbid and irritable. Many times they dwell upon their bad feelings until they think themselves much worse than they really are and whollyContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 3—Development of the Mind Chapter 13—Food for the Mind (Part 3) Overtaxing the Mind—The student who desires to put the work of two years into one should not be permitted to have his own way. To undertake to do double work means, with many, overtaxation of the mind and neglect of physical exercise. ItContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 3—Development of the Mind Chapter 13—Food for the Mind (Part 2) Confused Understanding—When the Word of God is laid aside for books that lead away from God and that confuse the understanding regarding the principles of the kingdom of heaven, the education given is a perversion of the name. Unless the student has pureContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”