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

and refine their manners. God would have His servants become acquainted with their
own hearts. In order to bring to them a true knowledge of their condition, He permits the
fire of affliction to assail them so that they may be purified.--RH, Apr 10, 1894 (ML 92.)
{2MCP 617.1}
Morose Disposition Injures Teacher's Efficiency.-- Above all others, he who has
the training of the youth should beware of indulging a morose or gloomy disposition; for
this will cut him off from sympathy with his students, and without sympathy he cannot
hope to benefit them. We should not darken our own path or the path of others with the
shadow of our trials. We have a Saviour to whom to go, into whose pitying ear we may
pour every complaint. We may leave all our cares and burdens with Him, and then our
labor will not seem hard or our trials severe.--CT 233 (1913). {2MCP 617.2}
Combining Sunniness and Integrity.--The religion of Jesus softens whatever is
hard and rough in the temper and smooths whatever is rugged and sharp in the
manners. It makes the words gentle and the demeanor winning. Let us learn from
Christ how to combine a high sense of purity and integrity with sunniness of disposition.
A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument that can be produced in
favor of Christianity.-- GW 122 (1915). {2MCP 617.3}
Improper Eating Spoils the Disposition.--Many spoil their dispositions by eating
improperly. We should be
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just as careful to learn the lessons of health reform as we are to have our studies
perfectly prepared, for the habits that we adopt in this direction are helping to form our
characters for the future life. It is possible for one to spoil his spiritual experience by an
ill-usage of the stomach.-- Lt 274, 1908 (CD 126.) {2MCP 617.4}
Flesh Meats Produce an Irritable Disposition.--God did not withhold meat from
the Hebrews in the wilderness simply to show His authority, but for their good, that they
might preserve physical and moral strength. He knew that the use of animal food
strengthens the animal passions and enfeebles the intellect. He knew that the
gratification of the appetite of the Hebrews for flesh meats would weaken their moral
powers and induce such an irritable disposition that the vast army would become
insubordinate, that they would lose the high sense of their moral obligations and refuse
to be controlled by the wise laws of Jehovah.--ST, Jan 6, 1876. (Te 160.) {2MCP 618.1}
Sugar and the Disposition.--Sugar is not good for the stomach. It causes
fermentation, and this clouds the brain and brings peevishness into the disposition.--MS
93, 1901. (CD 327.) {2MCP 618.2}
Softening a Perverse Disposition.--Advancement in Christian experience is
characterized by increasing humility, as the result of increasing knowledge. Everyone
who is united to Christ will depart from all iniquity. {2MCP 618.3}
I tell you, in the fear of God, I have been shown that many of you will fail of
everlasting life because you are building your hopes of heaven on a false foundation.
God is leaving you to yourselves, "to humble you and to prove you, to know what ... [is]