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A Discussion of Lecture 1

… ago, happiness is “an activity of soul in accordance with virtue” (I:vii). This idea will sound familiar to Latter-day … activity. It is “an activity of soul in accordance with virtue.” Joseph Smith said almost the same thing: “Happiness … if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all …

Helping Young Adults Work through Complex Issues of Faith

… it is useful to help YAs see hyperbole—that an unchecked virtue taken to an extreme becomes an unstable virtue. [8] But that doesn’t mean the initial virtue is not … for misapplication of a virtue. And there are many good virtues in the moral principles that YAs adhere to, …

Confucianism

… a person have the right to teach, rule, or guide others. Virtues That Foster Community Li (“observing ritual … no real concern for the other. This is where the supreme virtue of Jen enters the stage, for Jen is a virtue of …

Protecting Our Strengths

… weaknesses or suggests more insightfully how to safeguard virtue from degenerating into vice. Shiblon’s Self-Evident … Shiblon’s Underlying Weaknesses Compared to his manifest virtues, Shiblon’s deficiencies might not have been so … upon the Shadow To unlock this correspondence between virtue and vice, we return to Alma’s central caution: “See …

The Music of Morality

… hope for a world out of tune with heaven. Instilling moral virtue has ever been core to BYU’s mission. Every BYU … concerned with cognition over character, veritas over virtu . But not at BYU. Here we care about not only what our … As C. S. Lewis said, “Courage is not just one of the virtues, it is the form of every virtue at the testing …

Influences of Taoist Classics on Chinese Philosophy

… for me to choose between “The Classic of the Way and Virtue” or Tao Te Ching , and the Chuang Tzu . So you had … better at the best kind of virtue, not the secondary minor virtues; that you’ll get the real kind of righteousness, not …

Faculty and Staff Notes

… ———. “Inviting an Inward Stillness: Making Room for Virtue.” In Virtue and the Abundant Life , edited by Lloyd D. Newell, … Book, 2012. ———, and Terrance D. Olson. “The Golden Rule, Virtue, and the Pathway of Discipleship.” In Virtue and the … Book, 2012. ———. “Values That Transcend Time and Culture: Virtue Around the World.” In Virtue and the Abundant Life , …

Sacramental Living: Reflections on Latter-day Saint Ritual

… Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me” (Luke 8:43–46). Commenting on this … episode, the Prophet Joseph Smith pointed out that “the virtue here referred to [as described in the Gospels] is the … [1] While the King James Version renders the word as virtue , the Greek word dunamin means “power, strength, …

A King James Vocabulary Lesson

… in the original Greek New Testament writings. For example, virtues listed in 1 Timothy 3:2–4 and Titus 1:7–9 that should … or spiritual needs when God is looking after them. Virtue. When “virtue” went out of Jesus (Luke 8:46), he did …

By Persuasion, Long-Suffering, Meekness, and Love

… “No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by … long-suffering, meekness, and love, among other virtues, that makes them essential? And how can they be … conflict, strife, and disagreement. Let’s consider each virtue separately as we try to understand how they relate to …