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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
Ezra Taft Benson
Happiness
Lost
Pleasure
Foolish
Years
Momentary
Gratification
Desire
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
Ezra Taft Benson
You
People
Permanently
Doing
Cannot
Them
Themselves
Should
Help
Help People
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?
Ezra Taft Benson
God
Try
Our
Pleasing
Ourselves
Would
Outdo
Brother
Above
Rather
Well
Another
Motive
Than
Elevate
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
Ezra Taft Benson
Music
Thoughts
Soul
Peace
Speak
Action
Righteous
Inspiring
May
Move
Heavenly
Fill
Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.
Ezra Taft Benson
Freedom
Neglect
Direct
Attack
Well
Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their father in the rearing of your children. Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.
Ezra Taft Benson
Life
Love
Respect
Cause
Father
Example
Stumble
Nothing
Earn
Stay
Daughters
Because
Mothers
Close
Children
Your
Rearing
United
Deserve
Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.
Ezra Taft Benson
Family
Welfare
Has-Been
Principle
Been
Preparedness
You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
Ezra Taft Benson
You
Impossible
Wrong
Feel
Cannot
Right
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
Ezra Taft Benson
Live
Possible
Easy
Order
Then
Right
The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
Ezra Taft Benson
Life
Great
Will
Learn
Lord
Task
Then
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
Ezra Taft Benson
Pride
Seen
Others
Ourselves
Rarely
Admitted
Sin
Readily
When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.
Ezra Taft Benson
Life
Work
Faith
Age
Father
My Life
Example
Own
Think
Spirit
Vividly
About
My Own
Mission
Missionary
Call
How
Came
Go
Years
Cannot
Show
Help
Recall
Received
Thirteen
I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein.
Ezra Taft Benson
Great
Book
Will
Parents
Great Book
Our
Spirit
Both
Mormon
Feel
Come
Read
Dwell
Children
Themselves
Certain
Regularly
Who
Therein
Homes
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
Ezra Taft Benson
God
Nature
Pride
Will
Our
Pit
Essentially
Against
Competitive
In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.
Ezra Taft Benson
Home
Husband
He
Expected
Where
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.
Ezra Taft Benson
Happiness
Home
Joy
Fear
Father
Priesthood
Own
Duty
Make
Surely
His
Child
Place
Should
When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.
Ezra Taft Benson
You
Christ
Changed
Follow
Choose
A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.
Ezra Taft Benson
Life
Woman
Better
Problems
Own
Righteous
Total
Spirits
Better Chance
Involved
Concern
Up
Than
Personal
Children
Centered
Rearing
Whose
Keeping
Her
Chance
Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.
Ezra Taft Benson
Food
Man
Soul
Book
Old
Trial
Distress
Mormon
Hour
Comforted
Testament
Been
His
Psalms
Turned
Old Testament
Special
Many
Enlightened
To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.
Ezra Taft Benson
Love
God
Strength
Soul
Heart
Mind
Endeavor
To Love
Your
Lukewarm
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.
Ezra Taft Benson
Book
Other
Our
Would
Mormon
Doctrines
Without
Offers
Precious
Salvation
Taught
Plain
Scriptures
Much
Nearly
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.
Ezra Taft Benson
Pride
Considered
Righteous
Sin
Always
Scriptures
Thing
America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place of former civilizations, including Adam's, the Jaredites', and Nephites'.
Ezra Taft Benson
Great
Garden
Events
Located
Civilizations
Eden
America
Where
Place
Former
Many
Including
Here
Adam
It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
Ezra Taft Benson
Love
Faith
Home
Character
Righteousness
Mother
Example
Crucial
Feels
Learns
Years
Child
Influence
Where
Formative
Place
Forms
Loving
Choose
Thereby
Basic
Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
Ezra Taft Benson
You
Achievement
Correct
More
Smallest
Praise
Than
Children
Them
Your
Even
Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.
Ezra Taft Benson
Love
Spiritual
History
Constitution
Nation
Every
States
Latter
Constitution Of The United States
Prophetic
Inspired
Days
Operations
Lord
Saint
His
Which
Should
Base
United
Foundation
United States
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