Chapter 27—God’s Love God’s Love a Living Spring—The love of God is something more than a mere negation; it is a positive and active principle, a living spring, ever flowing to bless others. If the love of Christ dwells in us, we shall not only cherish no hatred toward our fellows, but we shall seekContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
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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
Chapter 26—Brotherly Love Love for Others Brings Joy—I would say to my brethren everywhere: Cultivate the love of Christ! It should well up from the soul of the Christian like streams in the desert, refreshing and beautifying, bringing gladness, peace, and joy into his own life and into the lives of others.—Testimonies for the ChurchContinue 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”
Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 5—Life’s Energizing Force (A) The Positive (Words of Privilege and Counsel) Jesus and the Family Relationship—Jesus did not enforce celibacy upon any class of men. He came not to destroy the sacred relationship of marriage but to exalt it and restore it to its original sanctity. He looks with pleasure upon the family relationshipContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”