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”
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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 4—Spiritual Influences and the Mind (Part 2) God Alone Can Raise Man in Moral Worth—The value of man as God estimates him is through his union with Christ, for God is the only One able to raise man in the scale of moral worth through the righteousness ofContinue 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 Religion and Health—Personal religion is of the highest importance. John wrote to Gaius, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth” (3 John 2). Health of body depends largely upon health ofContinue 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”