Section 5—Life’s Energizing Force Chapter 23—Love—A Divine, Eternal Principle (Part 2) Love Makes Concessions—Christ’s love is deep and earnest, flowing like an irrepressible stream to all who will accept it. There is no selfishness in His love. If this heaven-born love is an abiding principle in the heart, it will make itself known, not onlyContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
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Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 5—Life’s Energizing Force Chapter 23—Love—A Divine, Eternal Principle (Part 1) Love, the Principle of Action—When the heavenly principle of eternal love fills the heart, it will flow out to others, … because love is the principle of action, and modifies the character, governs the impulses, controls the passions, subdues enmity, and elevates and ennoblesContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 22—The School and the Teacher (Part 5) Schoolroom Atmosphere Affects Students—The religious life of a large number who profess to be Christians is such as to show that they are not Christians…. Their own hereditary and cultivated traits of character are indulged as precious qualifications when they are death-dealing inContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 22—The School and the Teacher (Part 4) Best Use of Parts Composing Human Machinery—Had teachers been learning the lessons the Lord would have them learn, there would not be a class of students whose bills must be settled by someone or else they leave the college with a heavy debtContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 22—The School and the Teacher (Part 3) Determination to Improve Important—A teacher’s advantages may have been limited so that he may not possess as high literary qualifications as might be desirable; yet if he has true insight into human nature; if he has a genuine love for his work, an appreciationContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 22—The School and the Teacher (Part 2) Call Forth High Qualities of the Mind—The greatest care should be taken in the education of youth to vary the manner of instruction so as to call forth the high and noble powers of the mind. Parents and teachers of schools are certainlyContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 22—The School and the Teacher Awakening of Mental Powers—True education is not the forcing of instruction on an unready and unreceptive mind. The mental powers must be awakened, the interest aroused. For this, God’s method of teaching provided. He who created the mind and ordained its laws, provided for itsContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”