101 Ezra Taft Benson Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ezra Taft Benson

American Leader

Born: Aug 4, 1899

Died: May 30, 1994

Book God Great Life Will You

Related authors: Bayard Rustin Brigham Young Henry B. Eyring Jefferson Davis Juliette Gordon Low Martin Luther King, Jr. Menachem Mendel Schneerson Walter Reuther

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. Ezra Taft Benson

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Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children. Ezra Taft Benson

Home Heart Training Nurturing Important Father's Day Fathers Way Head Equally Important Role Mothers Role Children Loving Should Play

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. Ezra Taft Benson

Faith Christ First Repentance Our Easter Must Seek Put Sin Sincere Look Him Built Lord Lord Jesus Lord Jesus Christ Truly Author Salvation Which Meaningful Who Foundation Away Jesus Jesus Christ

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless. Ezra Taft Benson

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With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. Ezra Taft Benson

Wisdom Pride Humility Come Blessings Curses Many

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. Ezra Taft Benson

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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. Ezra Taft Benson

Change Humble Repentance Takes Proud Improve Person Means Defend Position

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. Ezra Taft Benson

Love You Heart Words Fault Behavior Wife Feelings Sullen Criticize Find Someone Emotional Abuse Devotion Surely Does Cannot Mean To Love Means Your Actions Her

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. Ezra Taft Benson

Love Family Mother Father Important Own Brothers Brothers And Sisters Most Concern Genuine Friendships Sisters Them Should Your Loyal

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Ezra Taft Benson

God Heart Arrogance Pride Think Our Feature Toward Sin Conceit Missing Most Still Central Us Elements Enmity Core

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. Ezra Taft Benson

Time Health Good Good Health Age Youth Too Distant Temperance Horizons Physical Spirit Seem Emerging Attains Adventure Period Caution Timelessness May Body Noticed Ignore Vigor Awakening

Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually. Ezra Taft Benson

Time Family You Intelligence Opportunity Wife Partner Recognize Ability Husbands Give Spiritually Counsel Emotionally Budgeting Well Real Stingy Intellectually Regarding Means Your Plans Grow Activities Her Socially

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. Ezra Taft Benson

Teacher God Relationship Husband And Wife Pride Wife Husband Relationships Our Parent Student Between Employee Employer His Affects Child Mankind Servants

Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters. Ezra Taft Benson

Family Determination Wealth Matter Lost Matters Nothing Fatherhood Else Diligence Station See Kingdom Exalted Prize Celestial Really Desire

God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us. Ezra Taft Benson

God Joy Miserable Devil Would Hates Gives He Bless Commandments Curse Break Wants Loves Us

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble. Ezra Taft Benson

God Humble People Will Be Humble Either Choose Compelled

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. Ezra Taft Benson

People World Christ Out Would Inside Inside-Out Slums Take Outside Takes Lord Themselves Then Works

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. Ezra Taft Benson

King Men Changed Dramatically Record Remarkable Instant Road Were Praying Accounts Paul Scriptures Younger Far Whose Lives Night

Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies. Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.' Ezra Taft Benson

Failure You Pride Ugly Says Am Succeed

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