Re-thinking Diet - Solution #4

Sometimes it's about "just saying 'no'!"


Say "no" once, feel virtuous...
Say "no" twice, feel vitality....
Say "no" three times, feel victorious!


     Then he said to them all: "If anyone would
     come after me, he must deny himself, and
     take up his cross daily, and follow me."
                             -- Luke 9:23


He must deny himself daily....

Denying ourselves in smaller decisions will help prepare us to be able to deny ourselves in larger decisions.


Sometimes it's in the small things -- the daily things -- that we most honor the Savior.
 

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What Is Virtue?

There is a difference between some particular just or temperate actions and being a just or temperate man.

Someone who is not a good tennis player may now and then make a good shot.

What you mean by a good player is the man whose eyes and muscles and nerves have been so trained by making innumerable good shots that they can now be relied on.

They have a certain tone or quality which is there even when he is not playing, just as a mathematician's mind has a certain habit and outlook that is there even when he is not doing mathematics.

In the same sense a man who perseveres in doing just actions gets in the end a certain quality of character. Now it is that quality, rather than the particular actions, which we mean when we talk of "virtue."
                                    --  C. S. Lewis