In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persiste...
EZRA TAFT BENSON You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
EZRA TAFT BENSON The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people...
EZRA TAFT BENSON This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Fa...
EZRA TAFT BENSON There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden...
EZRA TAFT BENSON In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refin...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determinati...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a lo...
EZRA TAFT BENSON In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righte...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement an...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partn...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probatio...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten b...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father an...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means cha...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and c...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most v...
EZRA TAFT BENSON One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally impo...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.
EZRA TAFT BENSON An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.
EZRA TAFT BENSON When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fideli...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must b...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body atta...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.
EZRA TAFT BENSON God's revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the ark.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born a...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on c...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem som...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad ha...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strengt...
EZRA TAFT BENSON With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be ble...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth,...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can b...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displa...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage eac...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressin...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are tha...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, u...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by whi...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. Al...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Young adults enrolled in universities and colleges or other postsecondary training should avail them...
EZRA TAFT BENSON False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without ou...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, bl...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of E...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Young women, the family unit is forever, and you should do everything in your power to strengthen th...
EZRA TAFT BENSON It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic chara...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
EZRA TAFT BENSON We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged an...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.
EZRA TAFT BENSON So Iverson got to know the secretary of agriculture, who was a guy named Ezra Taft Benson,
EZRA TAFT BENSON Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follow...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Ir...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is de...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginn...
EZRA TAFT BENSON When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the m...
EZRA TAFT BENSON There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.
EZRA TAFT BENSON With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Wit...
EZRA TAFT BENSON If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships w...
EZRA TAFT BENSON If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their b...
EZRA TAFT BENSON To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON God will not be mocked.
EZRA TAFT BENSON There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.
EZRA TAFT BENSON God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are per...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abid...
EZRA TAFT BENSON A young man who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abidin...
EZRA TAFT BENSON We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming th...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity m...
EZRA TAFT BENSON You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.
EZRA TAFT BENSON The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. Al...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agre...
EZRA TAFT BENSON True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of thei...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The tenth plank in Karl Marx's Manifesto for destroying our kind of civilization advocated the estab...
EZRA TAFT BENSON No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you o...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefo...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blo...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselv...
EZRA TAFT BENSON When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of te...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality sp...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public w...
EZRA TAFT BENSON An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accus...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, an...
EZRA TAFT BENSON When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our l...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Time is numbered only to man.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Food production is just one part of the repeated emphasis that you store a provision of food which w...
EZRA TAFT BENSON No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freed...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.&#...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The condition of the physical body can affect the spirit.
EZRA TAFT BENSON The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talen...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the cen...
EZRA TAFT BENSON It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.
EZRA TAFT BENSON The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospe...
EZRA TAFT BENSON God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.
EZRA TAFT BENSON A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keepi...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people...
EZRA TAFT BENSON What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feel...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the incom...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.
EZRA TAFT BENSON A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appe...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family mem...
EZRA TAFT BENSON It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreci...
BOB TAFT We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the ...
BOB TAFT Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that...
BOB TAFT What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, wha...
BOB TAFT Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American ...
BOB TAFT Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.
BOB TAFT Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the ey...
BOB TAFT What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a st...
BOB TAFT We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeat...
BOB TAFT We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.
BOB TAFT Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled ...
BOB TAFT We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
BOB TAFT A dynamic economy begins with a good education.
BOB TAFT If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax s...
BOB TAFT We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.
BOB TAFT I recognize that motor fuel production and distribution are very complex processes that are influenc...
BOB TAFT I am hopeful the Supreme Court will recognize tax incentives as a constitutional means for states to...
BOB TAFT Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizen...
BOB TAFT The new agreements will improve and protect the health and economic vitality of the Great Lakes regi...
BOB TAFT These were recreational events with friends, primarily on the weekends, and we don't have a pay-to-p...
BOB TAFT George W. Bush is rightfully our president-elect, ... We should not prolong a constitutional impasse...
BOB TAFT The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their...
ROBERT TAFT This is the most expensive six minutes I've ever spent in my life.
BETTY TAFT From there, different people would say, 'So what are you going to do next?
BETTY TAFT Let us walk in the shoes of those who went before us, and conquer the third frontier on whose thresh...
BOB TAFT I've traveled this great state for many years, and seen firsthand our tremendous strengths. And our ...
BOB TAFT The terrorists thought they could destroy America. How wrong they were. Instead of weakening us, the...
BOB TAFT It's ineffective, it's misguided, it's crooked and it should be stopped.
KEVIN TAFT There's billions of dollars of investors' money at stake here, ... The national financial press will...
KEVIN TAFT This is our lottery win and we have a choice. We can spend it all now or we can think through a plan...
KEVIN TAFT One day the minister is saying something, the next day the premier is contradicting her,
KEVIN TAFT it feels like back-of-the-envelope policy at a billion-dollar scale.
KEVIN TAFT For systematically steering their customers to the most expensive providers,
KEVIN TAFT Once the chute opened, of course, we were floating, and it was just beautiful. It was awesome.
BETTY TAFT Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coinci...
EZRA MILLER There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; t...
EZRA POUND The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into ...
GEORGE EZRA If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...
EZRA POUND A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ...
EZRA POUND There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in bi...
EZRA POUND All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew n...
EZRA POUND If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...
EZRA POUND The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You tr...
EZRA POUND 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we...
EZRA POUND Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
EZRA POUND The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interfe...
EZRA POUND Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that...
EZRA POUND The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUND Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUND The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap of...
EZRA POUND It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it cl...
EZRA POUND Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUND The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of ...
EZRA POUND No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUND With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUND It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more in...
EZRA POUND A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUND