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

The mind must be preoccupied with sacred and eternal things, or it will cherish trifling
and superficial thoughts. Both the intellectual and the moral powers must be disciplined,
and they will strengthen and improve by exercise.--CT 544 (1913). {2MCP 587.3}
Disease Sometimes Produced by Imagination. [SEE CHAPTER 75,
"IMAGINATION AND ILLNESS."]--Disease is sometimes produced and is often greatly
aggravated by the imagination. Many are lifelong invalids who might be well if they only
thought so. Many imagine that every slight exposure will cause illness, and the evil
effect is produced because it is expected. Many die from disease the cause of which is
wholly imaginary.--MH 241 (1905). {2MCP 588.1}
Perverted Imagination.--From what the Lord has shown me, the women of this
class [those with an exaggerated concept of their qualities] have had their imaginations
perverted by novel reading, daydreaming, and castle-building--living in an imaginary
world. They do not bring their own ideas down to the common, useful duties of life.
They do not take up the life burdens which lie in their path and seek to make a happy,
cheerful home for their husbands. They rest their whole weight upon them, not bearing
their own burden. They expect others to anticipate their wants and do for them, while
they are at liberty to find fault and to question as they please. These women have a
love-sick sentimentalism, constantly thinking they are not appreciated, that their
husbands do not give them all the attention they deserve. They imagine themselves
martyrs.--2T 463 (1870). {2MCP 588.2}
Counsel to a Man With a Diseased Imagination.-- I saw that the Lord had given
you light and experience that you might see the sinfulness of a hasty spirit and control
your passions. So surely as you fail to do this, just
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so surely you will fail of everlasting life. You must overcome this disease of the
imagination. {2MCP 588.3}
You are extremely sensitive, and if a word is spoken favoring an opposite course
from that which you have been pursuing, you are hurt. You feel that you are blamed
and that you must defend yourself, save your life; and in your earnest effort to save
your life, you lose it. You have a work to do to die to self and to cultivate a spirit of
forbearance and patience. Get over the idea that you are not used right, that you are
wronged, that somebody wants to crowd or harm you. You see through false eyes.
Satan leads you to take these distorted views of things.--2T 424 (1870). {2MCP 589.1}
Reason Controlled by Imagination.--You are capable of controlling your
imagination and overcoming these nervous attacks. You have willpower, and you
should bring it to your aid. You have not done this, but have let your highly wrought
imagination control reason. In this you have grieved the Spirit of God. Had you no
power over your feelings, this would not be sin; but it will not answer thus to yield to the
enemy. Your will needs to be sanctified and subdued instead of being arrayed in