Section 3—Development of the Mind Chapter 12—Diligence (Part 2) Move Forward Steadily—I want your ambition to be a sanctified ambition so that angels of God can inspire your heart with holy zeal, leading you to move forward steadily and solidly and making you a bright and shining light. Your perceptive faculties will increase in powerContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
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Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 3—Development of the Mind Chapter 12—Diligence [See Chapter 65, Indolence.] Strive and Achieve—It is hard study, hard toil, persevering diligence, that obtain victories. Waste no hours, no moments. The results of work—earnest, faithful work—will be seen and appreciated. Those who wish for stronger minds can gain them by diligence. The mind increases in powerContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 3—Development of the Mind Chapter 11—Bible Study and the Mind Foundation of All Study—The Word of God is to be the foundation of all study, and the words of revelation, carefully studied, appeal to and strengthen the intellect as well as the heart. The culture of the intellect is required, that we may understandContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 2—Basic Relationships Chapter 10—Inderstanding (Part 2) Qualities Needed in Understanding Minds (counsel to a literature evangelist)—There are more difficulties in this work than in some other branches of business; but the lessons learned, the tact and discipline acquired, will fit you for other fields of usefulness, where you can minister to souls. Those who poorlyContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 2—Basic Relationships Chapter 9—Mind, the Citadel The Capital of the Body—Every organ of the body was made to be servant to the mind. The mind is the capital of the body.—Testimonies for the Church 3:136 (1872). The mind controls the whole man. All our actions, good or bad, have their source in the mind.Continue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 2—Basic Relationships Chapter 7—Disease That Begins in the Mind (Part 2) Importance of Sound Minds in Sound Bodies—Mental and moral power is dependent upon the physical health. Children should be taught that all pleasures and indulgences are to be sacrificed which will interfere with health. If the children are taught self-denial and self-control, theyContinue 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”