Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2 - Second Advent Revival

acquainted with Jesus. Self is the most difficult thing we have to manage. In laying off
burdens, let us not forget to lay self at the feet of Christ. {2MCP 540.5}
Hand yourself over to Jesus, to be molded and fashioned by Him, that you may be
made vessels unto honor. Your temptations, your ideas, your feelings, must all be laid
at the foot of the cross. Then the soul is ready to listen to words of divine instruction.
Jesus will give you to drink of the water which flows from the river of God. Under the
softening and subduing influence of His Spirit your coldness and listlessness will
disappear. Christ will be in you a well of water, springing up into everlasting life.--Lt 57,
1887. {2MCP 541.1}
Opens Secrets of Life's Success.--True faith and true prayer--how strong they are!
They are as two arms by which the human suppliant lays hold upon the power of Infinite
Love. Faith is trusting in God--believing that He loves us and knows what is for our best
good. Thus, instead of our own way, it leads us to choose His way. In place of our
ignorance, it accepts His wisdom; in place of our weakness, His strength; in place of our
sinfulness, His righteousness. Our lives, ourselves, are already His; faith acknowledges
His ownership and accepts its blessing. Truth, uprightness, purity, are pointed out as
secrets of life's success. It is faith that puts us in possession of these. Every good
impulse or aspiration is the gift of God; faith receives from God the life that alone can
produce true growth and efficiency.--GW 259 (1915). {2MCP 541.2}
BOOKS / 2MCP - Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 2 (1977) / Chap. 59 -
Character Formation
Chap. 59 - Character Formation
Every Act Influences Character.--Every act of life, however unimportant, has its
influence in forming the character. A good character is more precious than worldly
possessions, and the work of forming it is the noblest in which men can engage.--4T
657 (1881). {2MCP 545.1}
The Mind Is the Garden, Character the Fruit.-- Every faculty in man is a workman
that is building for time and for eternity. Day by day the structure is going up, although
the possessor is not aware of it. It is a building which must stand either as a beacon of
warning because of its deformity or as a structure which God and angels will admire for
its harmony with the Divine Model. {2MCP 545.2}
The mental and moral powers which God has given us do not constitute character.
They are talents which we are to improve and which, if properly improved, will form a
right character. A man may have precious seed in his hand, but that seed is not an
orchard. The seed must be planted before it can become a tree. The mind is the
garden; the character is the fruit. God has given us our faculties to cultivate and
develop. Our own course determines our character. In training these powers so that
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