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

making it the man of their counsel.--Lt 34, 1891. {2MCP 784.1}
Truth Is a Working Principle.--Truth is an active, working principle, molding heart
and life so that there is a constant upward movement. . . . In every step of climbing the
will is obtaining a new spring of action. The moral tone is becoming more like the mind
and character of Christ. The progressive Christian has grace and love which pass
knowledge, for divine insight into the character of Christ takes a deep hold upon his
affections. The glory of God revealed above the ladder can be appreciated only by the
progressive climber, who is ever attracted higher, to nobler aims which Christ reveals.
All the faculties of mind and body must be enlisted.--MS 13, 1884. (HC 68.) {2MCP
784.2}
A Positive Approach.--Heaven takes notice of the one who carries about with him
an atmosphere of peace and love. Such a one will receive his reward. He will stand in
the great day of the Lord.--MS 26, 1886. (HC 234.)
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Counsel and Training Not to Preclude Individual Relationship With God.--But
while education, training, and the counsel of those of experience are all essential, the
workers should be taught that they are not to rely wholly upon any man's judgment. As
God's free agents, all should ask wisdom of Him. When the learner depends wholly
upon another's thoughts and goes no further than to accept his plans, he sees only
through that man's eyes and is, so far, only an echo of another. God deals with men as
responsible beings. He will work by His Spirit through the mind He has put in man, if
man will only give Him a chance to work and will recognize His dealings. He designs
that each shall use his mind and conscience for himself. He does not intend that one
man shall become the shadow of another, uttering only another's sentiments.--5T 724,
725 (1889). {2MCP 785.1}
God Sanctions the Highest Culture of the Mind.-- The highest culture of the mind,
if sanctified through the love and the fear of God, receives His fullest approval. The
humble men chosen by Christ were with Him three years, subject to the refining
influence of the Majesty of heaven. Christ was the greatest educator the world ever
knew.--RH, June 21, 1877. (FE 47, 48.) {2MCP 785.2}
Mind the Source of All Actions, Good or Bad.--He has prepared this living
habitation for the mind; it is "curiously wrought," a temple which the Lord Himself has
fitted up for the indwelling of His Holy Spirit. The mind controls the whole man. All our
actions, good or bad, have their source in the mind. It is the mind that worships God
and allies us to heavenly beings. Yet many spend all their lives without becoming
intelligent in regard to the . . . [jewel case] that contains this treasure.--SpTEd 33, May
11, 1896. (FE 426.) {2MCP 785.3}
Heaven-directed or Perverted.--Intellect, ennobled, purified, heaven-directed, is
the universal
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