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

guarded. The perceptive faculties are abused,
terribly abused, when the passions are allowed to
run riot. When the passions are indulged, the blood,
instead of circulating to all parts of the body,
thereby relieving the heart and clearing the mind, is
called in undue amount to the internal organs.
Disease comes as the result. The man cannot be
healthy until the evil is seen and remedied.—SpT
Series B, No. 15, p 18, Apr 3, 1900. (Counsels on
Health, 587.)
The Mind Can Be Educated to Accept Sin.—
A long preparatory process, unknown to the world,
goes on in the heart before the Christian commits
open sin. The mind does not come down at once
from purity and holiness to depravity, corruption,
and crime. It takes time to degrade those formed in
the image of God to the brutal or the satanic. By
beholding we become changed. By the indulgence
of impure thoughts man can so educate his mind
that sin which he once loathed will become
pleasant to him.—Patriarchs and Prophets, 459
(1890).
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