Covenant Confidence

That confidence ties in neatly to Pres. Nelson’s exhortation to grow in the confidence in the presence of God.

I have been starting to study Pres. Nelson’s confidence talk and am realizing there’s so much I don’t know about “virtue.” I know what the gospel library says. I am looking for instances in the scriptures. But I feel like you (G) could teach me more about it because you’ve been doing these “virtue sets” for so long! I don’t even remember where those first come from, but I read this by Lynn G. Robbins:
“Every virtue needs a complementary virtue or virtues?, a divine check and balance, to keep it from becoming excessive. Just as the scales of justice symbolize the need for balance between justice and mercy, all virtues need a wise balance with their complementary virtues?.”

which sounds exactly like what those sets are doing. But are those charts about “virtues,” plural, and not “virtue,” singular? Is “virtue” just “the accumulation of virtues”? It is related to the Latin “strength.” So is a virtue merely a strength in some area or other?
The “virtue has gone out of me” scripture makes it sound like a spiritual currency of sorts. Or like blood.

And it’s obviously related to “covenant confidence” because President Nelson said to have that, we need 1. charity and 2. virtue. (Though, if virtue is “an accumulation of strengths, it seems it could INCLUDE charity)

I have so many questions!

That Robbins talk also says:

“Because of charity’s encompassing nature, all other virtues might be said to be its component virtues?, for it “suffereth long,” it “is kind,” it “envieth not,” and it “is not puffed up”…In essence, the invitation to “pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love” (?Moroni 7:48?) is an invitation to pray for all virtues and to strive for a perfect balance among them. Without balance, even charity can be taken to an extreme, such as with Helen Keller’s loving but permissive and indulgent parents.”

(I don’t know why question marks are being added to my cut-and-pastes here, as if I am talking like a valley girl who puts? an uplift? at the end of all her sentences??)

Hilarious?

I’ve been wondering the same things, if its any consolation.

The origin of the word ‘virtue’ is Latin for manliness, but I don’t think that is the sense of the word as it is used in the scriptures or by President Nelson.