Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
Interpretation
Music has a profound ability to elevate thoughts and inspire positive actions.
This quote highlights the transformative power of music in our lives. Ezra Taft Benson suggests that inspiring music can uplift the spirit, encourage moral behavior, and soothe the mind, illustrating how art can impact our emotions and actions deeply.
In practice
During a community gathering, you might quote this to emphasize the uniting power of music.
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."
Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.
Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.
Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
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