Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 1 - Ellen G. White

women. Heart education is of far more importance
than mere book learning. It is well, even essential,
to have a knowledge of the world in which we live;
but if we leave eternity out of our reckoning, we
shall make a failure from which we can never
recover.—The Ministry of Healing, 450 (1905).
The Mind and Spiritual Warfare.—Our
improvement in moral purity depends on right
thinking and right acting. “Not that which goeth
into the mouth defileth a man; but that which
cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.” “For
out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies. These are the things which defile a
man” (Matthew 15:11, 19, 20).
Evil thoughts destroy the soul. The converting
power of God changes the heart, refining and
purifying the thoughts. Unless a determined effort
is made to keep the thoughts centered on Christ,
grace cannot reveal itself in the life. The mind must
engage in the spiritual warfare. Every thought must
be brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
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