We will not know Him, until we become like him.
EZRA TAFT BENSONI grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.
More Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
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If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.
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Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
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The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.
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The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
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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.
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The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.
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No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. ‘Think what you do when you run in debt’, said Benjamin Franklin, ‘you give another power over your liberty.’
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Satan works through human agents.
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Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.
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One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?
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Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
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To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.
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Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.
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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.
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