Top 501 Quotes & Sayings by Ezra Taft Benson
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American leader Ezra Taft Benson.
Last updated on November 3, 2024.
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
The price of peace is righteousness.
The world is increasing in wickedness.
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums.
To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.
To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.
Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.
Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
God's revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the ark.
No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.
Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.
Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
The scriptures record remarkable accounts of men whose lives changed dramatically, in an instant, as it were: Alma the Younger, Paul on the road to Damascus, Enos praying far into the night, King Lamoni.
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability.
Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
Satan works through human agents.
The great test of life is obedience to God.
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.
I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.
Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.
A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.
Time is on the side of truth.
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