Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2

Section 12—Problems in Adjustment Chapter 59—Character Formation (Part 3) Habits Formed in Youth Mark the Life Course—By the thoughts and feelings cherished in early years, every youth is determining his own life history. Correct, virtuous, manly habits formed in youth will become a part of the character and will usually mark the course of theContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2”

Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2

Section 12—Problems in Adjustment Chapter 59—Character Formation (Part 2) Undisciplined Characters Are Discordant—Characters formed by circumstance are changeable and discordant—a mass of contraries. Their possessors have no high aim or purpose in life. They have no ennobling influence upon the characters of others. They are purposeless and powerless.—Testimonies for the Church 4:657 (1881). No OneContinue 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 Counsel to One Who Indulged in Exaggerated Language—From the light which God has given me, I know that spiritual deformity is being developed in you. In the place of giving a faultless exhibition of right principles and correct habits, you areContinue 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 2) Trivial Matters Enfeeble the Mind—The student who, in the place of the broad principles of the Word of God, will accept common ideas and will allow the time and attention to be absorbed in commonplace, trivial matters, will find his mind willContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1

Section 7—Adolescence and Youth Chapter 31—Problems of Youth (Part 3) What Every Woman Should Know—Many ladies, accounted well-educated, having graduated with honors at some institution of learning, are shamefully ignorant of the practical duties of life. They are destitute of the qualifications necessary for the proper regulation of the family, and hence essential to itsContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1

Section 7—Adolescence and Youth Chapter 31—Problems of Youth Thoughts Become Habits—We need a constant sense of the ennobling power of pure thoughts. The only security for any soul is right thinking. As a man “thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). The power of self-restraint strengthens by exercise. That which at first seemsContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1

39/46 Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1 Section 7—Adolescence and Youth Chapter 31—Problems of Youth Youth Are Receptive and Hopeful—The youth are receptive, fresh, ardent, hopeful. When once they have tasted the blessedness of self-sacrifice, they will not be satisfied unless they are constantly learning of the Great Teacher. The Lord will open ways beforeContinue reading