Chapter 73—Right Thinking
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See chapter 88, “Negative Influences on the Mind.”
]
Power of Thought a Gift From God—The mind is a trust from
God. The powers of the mind are to be cultivated. They are to be so
wisely used that they will increase in strength. Each one is to use his
entrusted talents in a way that the greatest good will be done. The
mind is to be educated that the best energies of the soul will be brought
out and every faculty be developed. We must not be contented with a
low standard. We are to move onward from one advanced line of work
to another.—Lt 106, 1901.
Mind to Be Trained—The mind is the best possession we have;
but it must be trained by study, by reflection, by learning in the school
of Christ, the best and truest educator the world has ever known. The
Christian worker must grow. He must build up a character for useful-
ness; he must educate himself to endure hardness and to be wise to
plan and execute in the work of God. He must be a man of pure mind
and conversation—one who will abstain from every appearance of evil
and give no occasion for reproach through his heedless ways. He must
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be truthful at heart; in his mouth there must be no guile.—
The Review
and Herald, January 6, 1885
.
He [Christ] died for me that I might be blessed and that His joy
might remain in me. Therefore I keep my mind in that channel; I
educate it; I train it; I train my tongue; I train my thoughts; I train all
that there is of me that I may fasten it upon Jesus Christ.—MS 36,
1891.
Every faculty of the mind shows that God designed these facul-
ties to be used, not to remain inactive.—
Testimonies for the Church
4:411
(1880).
Right Thinking Only Security—The only security for any soul
is right thinking. As a man “thinketh in his heart, so is he” (
Proverbs
23:7
). The power of self-restraint strengthens by exercise. That which
at first seems difficult, by constant repetition grows easy, until right
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