Health Reform
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The Influence of Habit
150. If our physical habits are not right, our mental and moral pow-
ers cannot be strong; for great sympathy exists between the physical
and the moral.... Habits which lower the standard of physical health,
enfeeble the mental and moral strength.—
Testimonies for the Church
3:50, 51
.
151. If you pursue a wrong course, and indulge in wrong habits of
eating, and thereby weaken the intellectual powers, you will not place
that high estimate upon salvation and eternal life which will inspire
you to conform your life to the life of Christ; you will not make those
earnest, self-sacrificing efforts for entire conformity to the will of God
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which his word requires, and which are necessary to give you a moral
fitness for the finishing touch of immortality.—
Testimonies for the
Church 2:66
.
152. In order to live a perfect life, we must live in harmony
with those natural laws which govern our being.—
Testimonies for the
Church 3:163
.
Effects upon the Mind
153. That which darkens the skin and makes it dingy, also clouds
the spirits, and destroys the cheerfulness and peace of mind.... Every
wrong habit which injures the health of the body, reacts in effect upon
the mind.—
The Health Reformer, February 1, 1877
.
154. Those things which fret and derange the stomach will have a
benumbing influence upon the finer feelings of the heart.—
Testimonies
for the Church 2:537
.
155. The gloom and despondency supposed to be the result of
obedience to God’s moral law is often attributable to disregard of
physical law. Those whose moral faculties are beclouded by disease
are not the ones rightly to represent the Christian life, and show forth
the joys of salvation or the beauties of holiness. They are too often
in the fire of fanaticism, or the waters of cold indifference or stolid
gloom.—
Signs of the Times, June 15, 1882
.
156. Unless they practise true temperance, they will not, they can-
not, be susceptible to the sanctifying influence of the truth.—
Christian
Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 117
.