Satan’s Science of Self-Exaltation
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Character building is the work, not of a day, nor of a year, but of a
lifetime. The struggle for conquest over self, for holiness and heaven,
is a lifelong struggle. Without continual effort and constant activity,
there can be no advancement in the divine life, no attainment of the
victor’s crown.—
The Ministry of Healing, 452
(1905).
The Impress of the Divine—Let not self wax to great proportions
lest the whole man be defiled. One leak will sink a ship, and one flaw
break a chain; so there may be some hereditary or cultivated trait of
character that will work in the heart and develop into words that will
make an impression for evil which will never be effaced. We are all
building for eternity. Let the character have the impress of the divine
in pure, noble utterances, in upright deeds. Then the whole universe of
heaven will behold and say, Well done, good and faithful servant.—Lt
91, 1899.
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