Integrity

Integrity

INTEG'RITY, noun [Latin integritas, from integer.]

1. Wholeness; entireness; unbroken state. The constitution of the U.States guaranties to each state the integrity of its territories. The contracting parties guarantied the integrity of the empire.

2. The entire, unimpaired state of any thing, particularly of the mind; moral soundness or purity; incorruptness; uprightness; honesty. integritycomprehends the whole moral character, but has a special reference to uprightness in mutual dealings, transfers of property, and agencies for others.

The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature, before which the pomp of eastern magnificence and the splendor of conquest are odious as well as perishable.

3. Purity; genuine, unadulterated, unimpaired state; as the integrity of language.

SCRIPTURES:

SCRIPTURES: INTEGRITY

Proverbs 19:1

• Old Testament

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. 

Job 27:5

• Old Testament

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mineintegrity from me. 

Job 31:6

• Old Testament

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mineintegrity. 

Psalms 25:21

• Old Testament

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. 

Job 2:9

• Old Testament

¶Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. 

Psalms 41:12

• Old Testament

And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. 

Genesis 20:5

• Old Testament

Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. 

Genesis 20:6

• Old Testament

And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. 

Psalms 78:72

• Old Testament

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. 

Proverbs 20:7

• Old Testament

The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. 

Psalms 26:1

• Old Testament

Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide. 

Psalms 26:11

• Old Testament

But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. 

Proverbs 11:3

• Old Testament

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. 

Psalms 7:8

• Old Testament

The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. 

1 Kings 9:4

• Old Testament

And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, inintegrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: 

D&C 124:15

• Doctrine and Covenants

And again, verily I say unto you, blessed is my servant Hyrum Smith; for I, the Lord, love him because of the integrity of his heart, and because he loveth that which is right before me, saith the Lord

PERSONAL DEFINITION:

I think that when you walk in Integrity, you are keeping your standards and you love what is right. You are honest and virtuous and you share the light of Christ as you serve with a smile. =)

Compromise

Compromise

COMPROMISE, noun [Latin To give bond to stand to an award, to promise.See Promise.]

1. A mutual promise or contract of two parties in controversy, to refer their differences to the decision of arbitrators.

2. An amicable agreement between parties in controversy, to settle their differences by mutual concessions.

3. Mutual agreement; adjustment.

[This is its usual signification.]

COMPROMISE, verb transitive

1. To adjust and settle a difference by mutual agreement, with concessions of claims by the parties; to compound.

2. To agree; to accord.

3. To commit; to put to hazard; to pledge by some act or declaration

Quotes:

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got

Janis Joplin

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. 

Tom Cochrane

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Colin Powell

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Princess Diana

PERSONAL DEFINITION:

To agree of make a deal, and explain reasons and ideas that could work for both sides.

:)

Resistance

RESIST'ANCE, noun

1. The act of resisting; opposition. resistance is passive, as that of a fixed body which interrupts the passage of a moving body; or active, as in the exertion of force to stop, repel or defeat progress or designs.

2. The quality of not yielding to force or external impression; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as the resistance of a ball which receives the force of another; the resistance of wood to a cutting instrument; the resistance of air to the motion of a cannon ball, or of water to the motion of a ship

SCRIPTURE:

Alma 24:22

• Book of Mormon

And thus without meeting any resistance, they did slay a thousand and five of them; and we know that they are blessed, for they have gone to dwell with their God

QUOTES:

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Mark Twain *

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Andre Gide

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Woodrow Wilson

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles. :)

Scott Adams

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Robert Conklin

PERSONAL DEFINITION:

I think resistance means holding back. When you resist something, you hold it back, or block it in some way.
I think resistance can be good as long as you don't take it as far as stubbornness, because you can resist temptations and fear, but when you start resisting obedience, then that's when you start becoming stubborn and you have less freedom. :)

*Also when you resist something, its not like that thing is going to dissapear, you are just using your agency to choose not to be a part of it. :)

Gripe

Gripe

GRIPE, verb transitive [Latin rapio.]

1. To seize; to grasp; to catch with the hand, and to clasp closely with the fingers.

2. To hold fast; to hold with the fingers closely pressed.

3. To seize and hold fast in the arms; to embrace closely.

4. To close the fingers; to clutch.

5. To pinch; to press; to compress.

6. To give pain to the bowels, as if by pressure or contraction.

7. To pinch; to straiten; to distress; as griping poverty.

GRIPE, verb intransitive To seize or catch by pinching; to get money by hard bargains or mean exactions; as a griping miser.

1. To feel the colic.

2. To lie too close to the wind, as a ship.

GRIPE, noun Grasp; seizure; fast hold with the hand or paw, or with the arms.

1. Squeeze; pressure.

2. Oppression; cruel exactions.

3. Affliction; pinching distress; as the gripe of poverty.

4. In seamen's language, the fore-foot or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end.

5. Gripes, in the plural, distress of the bowels; colic.

6. Gripes, in seamen's language, an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes and hooks, fastened to ring-bolts in the deck to secure the boats.

SCRIPTURES:

CRIPTURES: GRASP

Alma 42:14

• Book of Mormon

And thus we see that all mankind were fallen, and they were in thegrasp of justice; yea, the justice of God, which consigned them forever to be cut off from his presence. 

2 Nephi 28:19

• Book of Mormon

For the kingdom of the devil must shake, and they which belong to it must needs be stirred up unto repentance, or the devil will graspthem with his everlasting chains, and they be stirred up to anger, and perish; 

2 Nephi 9:10

• Book of Mormon

O how great the goodness of our God, who prepareth a way for our escape from the grasp of this awful monster; yea, that monster, death and hell, which I call the death of the body, and also the death of the spirit. 

3 Nephi 6:29

• Book of Mormon

Therefore they did combine against the people of the Lord, and enter into a covenant to destroy them, and to deliver those who were guilty of murder from the grasp of justice, which was about to be administered according to the law. 

2 Nephi 28:22

• Book of Mormon

And behold, others he flattereth away, and telleth them there is no hell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none—and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no deliverance. 

2 Nephi 28:23

• Book of Mormon

Yea, they are grasped with death, and hell; and death, and hell, and the devil, and all that have been seized therewith must stand before the throne of God, and be judged according to their works, from whence they must go into the place prepared for them, even a lake... 

Justice

• The Guide to the Scriptures

...wicked from the righteous, 1 Ne. 15:30The Atonement satisfies the demands of his justice, 2 Ne. 9:26All mankind is fallen and is in thegrasp of justice, Alma 42:14The Atonement appeases the demands of justice, Alma 42:15Do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice?, Alma 42:25The justice of God.

1 Nephi 8:24

• Book of Mormon

And it came to pass that I beheld others pressing forward, and they came forth and caught hold of the end of the rod of iron; and they did press forward through the mist of darkness, clinging to the rod of iron, even until they did come forth and partake of the fruit of the tree

Quotes:

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Elvis Presley

PERSONAL DEFINITION:

I think that to 'gripe' means to cling, or to clutch really tightly, or grab hold of.

I think griping is a greedy, if not almost vicious way of getting what you want. 

In an application sense, when we gripe, we fix our minds to something, and we squeeze it, and hold on with stubbornness and don't let go, then we can be so good at getting what we want, and we can decieve our selves too.

Sometimes when we want something bad enough, we can trick our minds into thinking its right, and we can become very selfish and stubborn and fixed to our cause, which will cause ignorence and a lot of fear and anxiety about getting what you want all the time.

It's probably better to trust the Lord and his Justice and Mercy and have Him be your strength instead of all the things you want to gripe at.

=)

Mercy

MER'CY, noun [Latin misericordia.]

1. That benevolence, mildness or tenderness of heart which disposes a person to overlook injuries, or to treat an offender better than he deserves; the disposition that tempers justice, and induces an injured person to forgive trespasses and injuries, and to forbear punishment, or inflict less than law or justice will warrant. In this sense, there is perhaps no word in our language precisely synonymous with mercy That which comes nearest to it is grace. It implies benevolence, tenderness, mildness, pity or compassion, and clemency, but exercised only towards offenders. mercy is a distinguishing attribute of the Supreme Being.

The Lord is long-suffering and of great mercy forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty. Numbers 14:18.

2. An act or exercise of mercy or favor. It is a mercy that they escaped.

I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies. Genesis 32:1.

3. Pity; compassion manifested towards a person in distress.

And he said, he that showed mercy on him. Luke 10:37.

4. Clemency and bounty.

Mercy and truth preserve the king; and his throne is upheld by mercyProverbs 28:13.

5. Charity, or the duties of charity and benevolence.

I will have mercy and not sacrifice. Matthew 9:13.

6. Grace; favor. 1 Corinthians 7:25. Jude 1:2.

7. Eternal life, the fruit of mercy 2 Timothy 1:2.

8. Pardon.

I cry thee mercy with all my heart.

9. The act of sparing, or the forbearance of a violent act expected. The prisoner cried for mercy

To be or to lie at the mercy of, to have no means of self-defense, but to be dependent for safety on the mercy or compassion of another, or in the power of that which is irresistible; as, to be at the mercy of a foe, or of the waves.

SCRIPTURES:

James 2:13

• New Testament

For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed nomercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. 

Psalms 123:3

• Old Testament

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 

Romans 11:31

• New Testament

Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercythey also may obtain mercy. 

1 Peter 2:10

• New Testament

Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 

Leviticus 16:15

• Old Testament

¶Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 

Alma 18:41

• Book of Mormon

And he began to cry unto the Lord, saying: O Lord, have mercy; according to thy abundant mercy which thou hast had upon the people of Nephi, have upon me, and my people. 

Leviticus 16:14

• Old Testament

And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 

Exodus 33:19

• Old Testament

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shewmercy. 

Exodus 37:9

• Old Testament

And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims. 

Proverbs 20:28

• Old Testament

Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden bymercy. 

Exodus 25:20

• Old Testament

And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. 

Romans 9:15

• New Testament

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 

Romans 9:18

• New Testament

Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 

Jeremiah 42:12

• Old Testament

And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land. 

Psalms 51:1

• Old Testament

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 

1 Nephi 8:8

• Book of Mormon

And after I had traveled for the space of many hours in darkness, I began to pray unto the Lord that he would have mercy on me, according to the multitude of his tender mercies. 

Hosea 2:23

• Old Testament

And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. 

Moroni 8:19

• Book of Mormon

Little children cannot repent; wherefore, it is awful wickedness to deny the pure mercies of God unto them, for they are all alive in him because of his mercy. 

Mosiah 16:12

• Book of Mormon

Having gone according to their own carnal wills and desires; having never called upon the Lord while the arms of mercy were extended towards them; for the arms of mercy 

Leviticus 16:2

• Old Testament

And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before themercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 

Merciful, Mercy

• The Guide to the Scriptures

The spirit of compassion, tenderness, and forgiveness. Mercy is one of the attributes of God. Jesus Christ offers mercy to us through his atoning sacrifice. 

QUOTES:

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
-Robert Frost

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.
-Joel Osteen


Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope


The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
-Thomas Merton

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
-Christopher Columbus

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
-Mitt Romney

PERSONAL DEFINITION:
I think mercy is compassion and pity and the willingness to sacrifice something of yourself just for the sake of others. Sometimes it even means giving people better than what they deserve.

Why do we need both Justice and Mercy then? If they are like complete opposites?
Well, first of all, without Justice there would be no Mercy, and vice versa.
Because if there were no law to abide and make sure to be kept, there would be no need for Mercy and forgiveness if that law or rule Wasn't kept.
We, as sinnimng souls of the world, need mercy. Without it, and without Christ's atonement, we would all be doomed.
Also, we need justice so that we can try to abide standard and gain the happiness brought by keeping those laws or standards.