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

side. This has been a weakness in your character. It
hurts your experience and gives a sad complexion
to your husband’s experience.
You brood too much. Whatever you can do to
divert your mind from your individual self, in any
line of employment, do it. You are to appreciate the
great gift to our world of Jesus Christ, and you may
expect much peace and comfort and love exercised
to keep your mind in perfect peace. Every believer
is to be clothed in the righteousness of Christ, and
that righteousness speaks better things than the
blood of Abel.—Lt 294, 1906.
Inability to Reason Rationally.—A student
may devote all his powers to acquire knowledge;
but unless he has a knowledge of God, unless he
obeys the laws that govern his own being, he will
destroy himself. By wrong habits he loses the
power of self-appreciation; he loses self-control.
He cannot reason correctly about matters that
concern him most deeply. He is reckless and
irrational in his treatment of mind and body.
Through his neglect to cultivate right principles, he
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