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Messages to Young People
Even your thoughts must be brought into subjection to the will of
God, and your feelings under the control of reason and religion. Your
imagination was not given you to be allowed to run riot and have its
own way, without any effort at restraint or discipline. If the thoughts
are wrong, the feelings will be wrong; and the thoughts and feelings
combined make up the moral character. When you decide that as
Christians you are not required to restrain your thoughts and feelings,
you are brought under the influence of evil angels, and invite their
presence and their control. If you yield to your impressions, and allow
your thoughts to run in a channel of suspicion, doubt, and repining,
you will be among the most unhappy of mortals, and your lives will
prove a failure.—
Testimonies for the Church 5:310
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