Section 11—Emotional Problems Chapter 49—Grief (Part 1) Breaks Down the Life-forces—Grief, anxiety, discontent, remorse, guilt, distrust, all tend to break down the life-forces and to invite decay and death…. Courage, hope, faith, sympathy, love, promote health and prolong life.—The Ministry of Healing, 241 (1905). Impairs Circulation—Sadness deadens the circulation in the blood vessels and nervesContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
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Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 11—Emotional Problems Chapter 48—Guilt (Part 2) Crisis Often Points to Source of Strength—God often brings men to a crisis to show them their own weakness and to point them to the source of strength. If they pray and watch unto prayer, fighting bravely, their weak points will become their strong points. Jacob’s experience contains manyContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 11—Emotional Problems Chapter 48—Guilt (Part 1) Guilt Impairs Life-forces—Grief, anxiety, discontent, remorse, guilt, distrust, all tend to break down the life-forces and to invite decay and death.—The Ministry of Healing, 241 (1905). How One Gains Freedom From Guilt—This feeling of guiltiness must be laid at the foot of the cross of Calvary. The sense ofContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 10—Mental Health Chapter 45—Individuality (Part 3) Individual Measurement—No man can grow up to the full stature of a man for another. Each must reach his own individual measurement for himself. Each is to grow up under God’s supervision.—Manuscript 116, 1898. No Other Human Being Fully Shares Inner Life—Viewed from its human side, life isContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 10—Mental Health Chapter 45—Individuality (Part 2) Consecration Beautifies Individuality—A life consecrated to the service of God will be developed and beautified in its individuality. No person can sink his individuality in that of another, but we are all, as individuals, to be grafted into the one parent stock, and there is to be unityContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 10—Mental Health Chapter 44—Laws Governing the Mind (Part 2) By Beholding We Become Changed—It is a law both of the intellectual and the spiritual nature that by beholding we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it isContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 10—Mental Health Chapter 44—Laws Governing the Mind (Part 1) Man Created With Perfectly Balanced Mind—The Lord made man upright in the beginning. He was created with a perfectly balanced mind, the size and strength of all its organs being perfectly developed. Adam was a perfect type of man. Every quality of mind was wellContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”