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Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
On Education, 30
June 12, 1896. (
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and
Students, 360
.)
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Stand in Your God-given Personality—God has given us ability
to think and to act, and it is by acting with carefulness, looking to Him
for wisdom, that you will become capable of bearing burdens. Stand
in your God-given personality. Be no other person’s shadow. Expect
that the Lord will work in and by and through you.—
The Ministry of
Healing, 498, 499
(1905).
The Blighting Mildew of the World (admonition to a minister
who loved speculation)—You are a man who should not be a teacher
of truth. You should be far in advance of where you are in experience
and in the knowledge of God. You should be a man in understanding;
for God has given you intellectual faculties which are susceptible of the
highest cultivation. Had you divorced yourself from your speculating
propensities, had you worked in the opposite direction, you would now
be able to do acceptable service for God.
Had you cultivated your mind aright and used your powers to God’s
glory, you would have been fully qualified to bear the warning message
to the world. But the mildew of the world has so affected your mind
that it is not sanctified. You have not been cultivating the faculties that
would make you a successful spiritual worker in the cause of God.
You may carry forward the work of educating your mind in right lines.
If you do not now become intelligent in regard to the truth, the fault
will be all your own.—
Letter 3, 1878
Move Forward Steadily—I want your ambition to be a sanctified
ambition so that angels of God can inspire your heart with holy zeal,
leading you to move forward steadily and solidly and making you a
bright and shining light. Your perceptive faculties will increase in
power and soundness if your whole being—body, soul, and spirit—is
consecrated to the accomplishment of a holy work. Make every effort,
in and through the grace of Christ, to attain to the high standard set
before you. You can be perfect in your sphere as God is perfect in His
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sphere. Has not Christ declared, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your
Father which is in heaven is perfect” (
Matthew 5:48
)?—
Letter 123,
1904
Cultivate Every Power—He desires that we shall constantly be
growing in holiness, in happiness, in usefulness. All have capabilities
which they must be taught to regard as sacred endowments, to appre-