must I do to be damned? nothing

What must I do to be damned? Nothing. That's all. You're condemned if you just sit still. That is the law of this physical world.

If you sit still long enough you'll never get up again. If you never lift your arm, you'll soon be unable to raise it at all. If you remain in darkness and never use your eyes, you'll soon become blind.

It is the law in the mental world. If you never exercise your brain never read, study, nor talk to anyone, never permit anyone to talk to you your mind will became blank maybe you'll become insane.

The most horrible punishment that could be inflicted upon you is not twenty years of hard labor, but twenty years of solitary confinement.

It's the law in the spiritual world. Simply shut your heart to all truth, and after a while you won't be able to believe anything—that is the severest penalty for not accepting truth.

The process of disintegration and death begins when a man shuts himself out from the forces that make for life.

The body and mind and spirit are kept alive through constant constructive use.



Charles Steizle, The Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball. 1969. p.93 found originally in Utah Labor News, December 12, 1937