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.
Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
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