There are opportunities and advantages which are within the reach of all to strengthen the moral and spiritual powers. The mind can be expanded and ennobled and should be made to dwell upon heavenly things…. Unless it flows in a heavenward direction it becomes an easy prey to the temptation of Satan to engage in …
There is one safeguard against Satan’s deceptions and snares, that is the truth as it is in Jesus. The truth planted in the heart, nourished by watchfulness and prayer, nourished by the grace of Christ, will give us discernment. The truth must abide in the heart, be felt in its power in spite of all …
The sacrifice required of Abraham was not alone for his own good, nor solely for the benefit of succeeding generations; *but it was also for the instruction of the sinless intelligences of heaven and of other worlds.* PP 154.3