Section 11—Emotional Problems Chapter 50—Worry and Anxiety (Part 2) God’s Responsibility and Mine—When we take into our hands the management of things with which we have to do and depend upon our own wisdom for success, we are taking a burden which God has not given us and are trying to bear it without HisContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
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Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2
Section 11—Emotional Problems Chapter 49—Grief (Part 2) Turn From Uncontrollable Grief (counsel to a bereaved family)—Like Job, you felt that you had cause for grief and would not be comforted. Was this reasonable? You know that death is a power that none can resist, but you have made your lives nearly useless by your unavailingContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”
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 9—Interrelationship of Body and Mind Chapter 39—Harmonious Action of the Whole Personality Necessary A Mysterious Interrelationship—Between the mind and the body there is a mysterious and wonderful relation. They react upon each other. To keep the body in a healthy condition to develop its strength, that every part of the living machinery may actContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1
Section 8—Guiding Principles in Education Chapter 37—Principles of Study and Learning (Part 4) Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You that we can share Your love to those around us. With the right motives, we can be used of Your Holy Spirit to be a blessing. Thank You for the privilege of prayer and for knowing that throughContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1
Section 8—Guiding Principles in Education Chapter 35—The Influence of Perception (Part 3) Environment Influences—The more the patient can be kept out of doors, the less care will he require. The more cheerful his surroundings, the more hopeful will he be. Shut up in the house, be it ever so elegantly furnished, he will grow fretfulContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”