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Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Not to Be Casually Read—It is not safe for us to turn from the
Holy Scriptures with only a casual reading of their sacred pages....
Rein the mind up to the high task that has been set before it, and study
with determined interest, that you may understand divine truth. Those
who do this will be surprised to find to what the mind can attain.—
The
Youth’s Instructor, June 29, 1893
. (HC 35.)
Memory Training Aids the Mind—The mind must be restrained
and not allowed to wander. It should be trained to dwell upon the
Scriptures and upon noble, elevating themes. Portions of Scripture,
even whole chapters, may be committed to memory to be repeated
when Satan comes in with his temptations. The fifty-eighth chapter
of Isaiah is a profitable one for this purpose. Wall the soul in with the
restrictions and instructions given by inspiration of the Spirit of God.
When Satan would lead the mind to dwell upon earthly and sensual
things, he is most effectually resisted with “It is written.” ... When he
suggests doubts as to whether we are really the people whom God is
leading, whom by tests and provings He is preparing to stand in the
great day, be ready to meet his insinuations by presenting the clear
evidence from the Word of God that this is the remnant people who
are keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.—
The
Review and Herald, April 8, 1884
.
Bible Study Produces Well-balanced Minds—Those who are
under the training of the Holy Spirit will be able to teach the Word
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intelligently. And when it is made the study book, with earnest sup-
plication for the Spirit’s guidance and a full surrender of the heart to
be sanctified through the truth, it will accomplish all that Christ has
promised.
The result of such Bible study will be well-balanced minds; for the
physical, mental, and moral powers will be harmoniously developed.
There will be no paralysis in spiritual knowledge. The understanding
will be quickened, the sensibilities will be aroused, the conscience
will become sensitive, the sympathies and sentiments will be purified,
a better moral atmosphere will be created, and a new power to resist
temptation will be imparted.—
Special Testimonies On Education, 26,
27
, June 12, 1896. (
Fundamentals of Christian Education, 433, 434
.)
An Antidote for Poisonous Insinuations—When the mind is
stored with Bible truth, its principles take deep root in the soul, and the
preference and tastes become wedded to truth, and there is no desire