Sublime

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved on

Still, in a case of this kind, it should be our care, especially in youth, to avoid the precipice of presumption, and not ascribe to ourselves a superfluity of power which is not there.

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself. You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impress Thinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and misty concept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become.

We act in accordance with how we think the people in our community are supposed to act.

Sincere repudiation requires sufficient comprehension of that which you repudiate to provide justification should your opposition face challenge or scrutiny.

Be your own last judge.

“effection”

decisions should be made on your knees. Not in a deacons’ meeting.

I act in ways that promote feelings of self-worth and self-esteem.