“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.”
Question for Meditation: What do you need to be strong for?
Month: March 2017
“Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct; for it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.’”
Question for Meditation: What is one holy thing you can do today?
“Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.”
Question for Meditation: What can you do today to take a step in your “long, slow climb”?
“Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves.”
Question for Meditation: What gives you belief in yourself?
“Wherever there is someone who has been baptized, that is where the church is. There is a prophet there. Let us not hide the talent that God gave us on the day of our baptism and let us truly live the beauty and responsibility of being a prophetic people.”
Question for Meditation: What responsibility do you have to authentically speak and live the truth?
“Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear—and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.”
Question for Meditation: What does discipline make you free to do?
“And strive in His cause like you should strive, with devotion and dedication.”
Question for Meditation: How can you dedicate yourself to a cause today?
“Related to sacrifice is self-discipline. Discipline is not what you do to somebody. Discipline is what you do for somebody.”
Question for Meditation: Has there been a time in your life you were grateful for discipline?
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Question for Meditation: What is one unnecessary thing you can leave out of your day?
“I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity
Through belief in the threeness
Through confession of the Oneness
Towards the creator.”
Question for Meditation: What makes you get up in the morning?
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