Keep sweet is the community's summary of the expected disposition, addressed particularly to women and children: obedience without visible complaint, cheerfulness under correction, and no expression of doubt. Members describe it as an ideal of peaceableness. Former members describe it as the instruction that made everything else possible, and the phrase has become the title of books and documentaries about the group. Both descriptions are of the same two words, which is a fair summary of why this line is difficult to write.