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

Dreamings of the Mind Lead to Selfexaltation.—If
the thoughts, the dreamings of the
mind, are of great purposes in which self figures,
there will be revealed in words and actions selfexaltation,
a lifting up of self. These thoughts are
not such as lead to a close walk with God. Those
who move without thoughtful consideration move
unwisely. They make fitful efforts, strike out here
and there, catch at this and that, but it amounts to
nothing. They resemble the vine; its tendrils
untrained and left to straggle out in every direction
will fasten upon any rubbish within their reach; but
before the vine can be of any use, these tendrils
must be broken off from the things they have
grasped and trained to entwine about those things
which will make them graceful and well formed.—
Lt 33, 1886.
Controlling the Imagination.—Had you
trained your mind to dwell upon elevated subjects,
meditating upon heavenly themes, you could have
done much good. You could have had an influence
upon the minds of others to turn their selfish
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