Section 12—Problems in Adjustment Chapter 62—Communication (Part 3) Grumbling Stunts Growth—There are men who possess excellent faculties but who have come to a standstill. They do not go forward to victory. And the ability with which God has endowed them is of no value to His cause because it is unused. Many of these menContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
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Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 12—Problems in Adjustment Chapter 61—The Vital Function of God’s Laws (Part 1) (A) The Decalogue The Knowledge of Guilt—The knowledge which God did not want our first parents to have was a knowledge of guilt. And when they accepted the assertions of Satan, which were false, disobedience and transgression were introduced into our world.Continue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 12—Problems in Adjustment Chapter 59—Character Formation (Part 2) Undisciplined Characters Are Discordant—Characters formed by circumstance are changeable and discordant—a mass of contraries. Their possessors have no high aim or purpose in life. They have no ennobling influence upon the characters of others. They are purposeless and powerless.—Testimonies for the Church 4:657 (1881). No OneContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 11—Emotional Problems Chapter 57—Hatred and Revenge (Part 2) A Violation of the Sixth Commandment—All acts of injustice that tend to shorten life—the spirit of hatred and revenge, or the indulgence of any passion that leads to injurious acts toward others or causes us even to wish them harm (for “whoso hateth his brother isContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 11—Emotional Problems Chapter 56—Anger (Part 3) Reason Dethroned by Anger—I hope you will go over the ground carefully and consider your first temptation to depart from the rules of the college. Study critically the character of the government of our school. The rules which were enforced were none too strict. But anger was cherished;Continue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 11—Emotional Problems Chapter 56—Anger (Part 2) Never Discipline in Anger—God has a tender regard for the children. He wants them to gain victories every day. Let us all endeavor to help the children to be overcomers. Do not let offenses come to them from the very members of their own family. Do not permitContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 11—Emotional Problems Chapter 56—Anger (Part 1) Anger Opens the Heart to Satan—Those who at any supposed provocation feel at liberty to indulge anger or resentment are opening the heart to Satan. Bitterness and animosity must be banished from the soul if we would be in harmony with heaven.—The Desire of Ages, 310 (1898). ServantsContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”