I feel certain that he would not recognize a generous impulse if he met it on the street.


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I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of E...
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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
Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.
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