Tag: Emotional Stability

James 3:10-11 Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water?.. No, and you can’t draw fresh water from a salty spring. “I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” ― Oscar Wilde Emotions must always...

2 Chronicles 26:16 But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. Ezra Taft Benson Pride is to...

Luke 12:25-26 25 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? Did you know that the origin of the word ‘worry’ meant ‘to strangle’ in Old English? Some other derivative in the earliest versions for worry was to twist, wring,...

Number 20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. Anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything. – Thomas S. Monson Regret cannot recover what anger has destroyed. Anger...

Genesis 30:1 Rachel noticed that she was not bearing children for Jacob, so because she envied her sister Leah, she told Jacob, “If you don’t give me sons, I’m going to die! Waiting makes the heart grow faint and frustration fades away our faith. Psychologist Sarah Schnitker, in her research on ‘waiting’ states that there...

1 Thessalonians 5:18 “In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” The key to mental health and happiness is giving thanks in everything. Stephanie Pappas, a freelance science journalist in her article in the Washington Post articulated some practical tips to mental health. Some of her quick...

Joshua 2:11 And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath. ‘Emotional stability’ is a fundamental personality trait to be level-headed even during stressful circumstances....