Section 6—Selfishness and Self-respect Chapter 28—Self-respect Self-respect Destroyed by Masturbation [See Child Guidance, 439-468.]—The effect of such debasing habits is not the same upon all minds. There are some children who have the moral powers largely developed, who, by associating with children that practice self-abuse, become initiated into this vice. The effect upon such will be tooContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
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Mind, Character, and Personality
Section 6—Selfishness and Self-respect Chapter 28—Self-respect Developing Self-respect—If we wish to do good to souls, our success with these souls will be in proportion to their belief in our belief in, and appreciation of, them. Respect shown to the struggling human soul is the sure means through Christ Jesus of the restoration of the self-respectContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Chapter 26—Brotherly Love (Part 2) Only Love of Christ Can Heal—Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only he in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or as the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.—Education, 114 (1903). Prepares for Every Eventuality—Everyone whoContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 5—Life’s Energizing Force (C) Balance and Victory (Part 2) (Words of Promise and Hope) Put Temptation to Death—The lower passions have their seat in the body and work through it. The words flesh or fleshly or carnal lusts embrace the lower, corrupt nature; the flesh of itself cannot act contrary to the will of God. We are commanded to crucifyContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 5—Life’s Energizing Force (B) The Negative (Part 4) Sexual Activity Before Marriage (counsel to a Seventh-day Adventist youth)—Few temptations are more dangerous or more fatal to young men than the temptation to sensuality, and none if yielded to will prove so decidedly ruinous to soul and body for time and eternity…. You were shownContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 5—Life’s Energizing Force (B) The Negative (Part 2) (Words of Restraint and Caution, Part 2) Counsel to Women—I write with a distressed heart that the women in this age, both married and unmarried, too frequently do not maintain the reserve that is necessary. They act like coquettes. They encourage the attentions of single andContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 5—Life’s Energizing Force (B) The Negative (Words of Restraint and Caution) Marriage Not Designed to Cover Sensuality and Base Practices—God never designed that marriage should cover the multitude of sins that are practiced. Sensuality and base practices in a marriage relation are educating the mind and moral taste for demoralizing practices outside the marriageContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”