Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

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 so
surely you will fail of everlasting life. You must
overcome this disease of the imagination.
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.—Testimonies for the
Church 2:424 (1870).
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
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