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

All the treatment that may be given to this
sister will be of little advantage unless she acts her
part. She needs to strengthen muscle and nerve by
physical labor. She need not be an invalid, but can
do good, earnest labor. Like many others, she has a
diseased imagination. But she can overcome and be
a healthy woman. I have had this message to give
to many, and with the best results.—Lt 231, 1905.
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Summon the Aid of the Will.—Indolence is a
great evil. Men, women, and youth, by dwelling
upon themselves, think they are in a much worse
condition than they really are. They nurse their
ailments, and think of them and talk of them, until
their usefulness seems to be at an end. Many have
passed into the grave when they might have lived,
and ought to have lived. Their imagination was
diseased. Had they resisted the disposition to yield
to infirmities and be overcome by them; had they
summoned to their aid the powers of the will, they
might have lived to bless the world with their
influence.—The Health Reformer, July, 1868.
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