upright

UPRIGHT, a. upri'te or up'rite. [up and right. This word is marked in books with the accent on the first syllable. But it is frequently pronounced with the accent on the second, and the accent on the first syllable of its derivatives is inadmissible.]

1. Erect; perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; as an upright tree; an upright post. Among mechanics, plumb.

2. Erected; pricked up; shooting directly from the body.

All have their ears upright -

With chatt'ring teeth and bristling hair upright.

3. Honest; just; adhering to rectitude in all social intercourse; not deviating from correct moral principles; as an upright man. Job. 1.

4. Conformable to moral rectitude.

Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure.

SCRIPTURES:

Psalms 97:11

• Old Testament

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. 

Proverbs 2:21

• Old Testament

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. 

2 Samuel 22:26

• Old Testament

With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. 

Psalms 119:137

• Old Testament

Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments. 

Acts 14:10

• New Testament

Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. 

Psalms 19:13

• Old Testament

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 

Isaiah 26:7

• Old Testament

The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. 

Psalms 64:10

• Old Testament

The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory. 

rectitude

REC'TITUDE, n. [L. rectus, right, straight.]

In morality, rightness of principle or practice; uprightness of mind; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws. Rectitude of mind is the disposition to act in conformity to any known standard of right, truth or justice; rectitude of conduct is the actual conformity to such standard. Perfect rectitude belongs only to the Supreme Being. The more nearly the rectitude of men approaches to the standard of the divine law, the more exalted and dignified is their character. Want of rectitude is not only sinful, but debasing.

There is a sublimity in conscious rectitude - in comparison with which the treasures of earth are not worthnaming.                   

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                       PERSONAL DEFINITION:   think to be upright, means to be morally correct and genuinely righteous. The upright in heart have many promised blessings. It says that the upright in heart can be glad in the Lord. If you have an upright heart, you are in the right and your desires are pure and so you can rejoice in the gospel because as you live it, you are constantly reminded of the peace that comes with that. To be glad IN the Lord is a form of humility, because you are giving the credit to him. You rejoice because of His goodness.
So when you are upright in heart, you trust God and rejoice in Him for your blessings that He gives you as you make actions that are upright. Then you can confidently stand upright knowing that your intentions are pure, therefore making your actions upright.                                                                    So I guess the pattern is:

Upright heart

Upright actions

Rejoice in the Lord for all the blessings that come from living upright.

 The gospel is the most truly upright (morally and principally correct) doctrine, so if your heart's desire is to live that, you have an upright heart. Then once you act on it, all your actions will be upright.

divide

DIVIDE, v.t. [L., to part. See the latter words.]

1. To part or separate an entire thing; to part a thing into two or more pieces.

Divide the living child in two. 1 Kings 3.

2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition or by an imaginary line or limit. A wall divides two houses. The equator divides the earth into two hemispheres.

Let the firmament divide the waters from the waters. Genesis 1.

3. To make partition of, among a number.

Ye shall divide the land by lot. Numbers 33.

4. To open; to cleave.

Thou dist divide the sea. Nehemiah 9.

5. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant.

There shall be five in one house divided, three against two--Luke 12.

6. To distribute; to separate and bestow in parts or shares.

And he divided to them his living. Luke 15.

7. To make dividends; to apportion the interest or profits of stock among proprietors; as, the bank divides six per cent.

8. To separate into two parts, for ascertaining opinions for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house, in voting.DIVIDE, v.i.

1. To part; to open; to cleave.

2. To break friendship; as, brothers divide.

3. To vote by the division of a legislative house into two parts.

The emperors sat, voted and divided with their equals.

SCRIPTURES:

Exodus 14:16

• Old Testament

But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. 

Job 27:17

• Old Testament

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. 

Luke 12:13

• New Testament

¶And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. 

(  14 And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of ^acovetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.)

Psalms 74:13

• Old Testament

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 

Deuteronomy 19:3

• Old Testament

Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. 

Psalms 108:7

• Old Testament

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. 

Moses 2:6

• Pearl of Great Price

And again, I, God, said: Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and it was so, even as I spake; and I said: Let it divide the waters from the waters; and it was done; 

Moses 2:14

• Pearl of Great Price

And I, God, said: Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years;

QUOTES:

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Rene Descartes

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

Colin Farrell

PERSONAL DEFINITION:

As I was researching this word Divide, I kept finding a reoccurring theme that Division or separation can bring unity. I thought to myself- Wait! That doesn't make any sense.
But it does...
Let's take two people to represent the context of the word divide. Those two people are you, and someone else. Now, if you are divided in opinion, a choice springs up. You can choose to become unified by lovingly receiving both viewpoints, or you can become disordered and split by selfishly arguing.

So the separateness can bring unity if it is acted upon with love.

The law of nature revolves around becoming whole. We want to become whole. (If we are in line with Nature- or God's law). But it often takes Division to accomplish that wholeness or unity.

But what if a house divided against itself cannot stand?
I think the key word in the sentence before is itself. When we aren't aligned with our own true purpose, we can't have unity with others. And the only way to be wholly aligned with our own true purpose is through the atonement. Even then, we need a separate being to make us whole.
Division equals Unity.
Here are some examples:
God had to separate us from Him, by sending us to this earth, so that we could be in a state where we could progress and return to Him being more complete and having more knowledge.

It takes male and female to create a human being.

The human body is made up of separate pairs. (Two eyes, ears, arms, legs, feet)

There are a lot of examples in nature where you need divided or separate sources to achieve a goal or unity.

heart HEART, n. [L. cor, cordis, and allied to Eng.core, or named from motion, pulsation.] 1. A muscular viscus, which is the primary organ of the blood's motion in an animal body, situated in the thorax. From this organ all the arteries arise, and in it all the veins terminate. By its alternate dilatation and contraction, the blood is received from the veins, and returned through the arteries, by which means the circulation is carried on and life preserved. 2. The inner part of any thing; the middle part or interior; as the heart of a country, kingdom or empire; the heart of a town; the heart of a tree. 3. The chief part; the vital part; the vigorous or efficacious part. 4. The seat of the affections and passions, as of love, joy, grief, enmity, courage, pleasure &c. The heart is deceitful above all things. Every imagination of the thoughts of the heart is evil continually. We read of an honest and good heart, and an evil heart of unbelief, a willing heart, a heavy heart, sorrow of heart, a hard heart, a proud heart, a pure heart. The heart faints in adversity, or under discouragement, that is, courage fails; the heart is deceived, enlarged, reproved, lifted up, fixed, established, moved, &c. 5. By a metonymy, heart is used for an affection or passion, and particularly for love. The king's heart was towards Absalom. 2 Sam. 14. 6. The seat of the understanding; as an understanding heart. We read of men wise in heart, and slow of heart. 7. The seat of the will; hence, secret purposes, intentions or designs. There are many devices in a man's heart. The heart of kings is unsearchable. The Lord tries and searches the heart. David had it in his heart to build a house of rest for the ark. Sometimes heart is used for the will, or determined purpose. The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Eccles.8. 8. Person; character; used with respect to courage or kindess. Cheerly, my hearts. 9. Courage; spirit; as, to take heart; to give heart; to recover heart. 10. Secret thoughts; recesses of the mind. Michal saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart. 2 Sam.6. 11. Disposition of mind. He had a heart to do well. 12. Secret meaning; real intention. And then show you the heart of my message. 13. Conscience, or sense of good or ill. Every man's heart and conscience--doth either like or disallow it. 14. Strength; power of producing; vigor; fertility. Keep the land in heart. That the spent earth may gather heart again. 15. The utmost degree. This gay charm--hath beguiled me To the very heart of loss. To get or learn by heart, to commit to memory; to learn so perfectly as to be able to repeat without a copy. To take to heart, to be much affected; also, to be zealous, ardent or solicitous about a thing; to have concern. To lay to heart, is used nearly in the sense of the foregoing. To set the heart on, to fix the desires on; to be very desirous of obtaining or keeping; to be very fond of. To set the heart at rest, to make one's self quiet; to be tranquil or easy in mind. To find in the heart, to be willing or disposed. I find it in my heart to ask your pardon. For my heart, for tenderness or affection. I could not for my heart refuse his request. Or, this phrase may signify, for my life; if my life was at stake. I could not get him for my heart to do it. To speak to one's heart,in Scripture, to speak kindly to; to comfort; to encourage. To have in the heart, to purpose; to have design or intention. A hard heart, cruelty; want of sensibility.

SCRIPTURES:

Heart

• The Guide to the Scriptures

A symbol of the mind and will of man and the figurative source of all emotions and feelings

Luke 6:45

• New Testament

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. 

Ezekiel 36:26

• Old Testament

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stonyheart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 

Psalms 57:7

• Old Testament

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise

Obadiah 1:3

• Old Testament

¶The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 

Proverbs 23:15

• Old Testament

My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine

QUOTES:

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Khalil Gibran

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Leonardo da Vinci

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

Johnny Weir

Love, Good, Trust

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

Julia Roberts

Relationship, Together, Matter

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. ~Paramahansa Yogananda

.                                                                       PERSONAL DEFINITION: I think the heart is the main center point of our body. Everything thing else focuses, revolves around, and depends on its functioning. It's a representation of a place where we experinace emotions and feelings- and since our actions are results of our feelings- it is important that we strive to have a pure, and broken heart. Broken in the sense that we are humble and open to His will, and Pure in the sense that we are using His atonement to make us whole. I like to imigine it like this: A heart with a whole bunch of cracks and crevises, and God's love and mercy pouring into the cracks like glue to make it whole.