If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
EZRA TAFT BENSONFaith 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.
More Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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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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Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren’t interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.
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We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.
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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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The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive…It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.
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Satan works through human agents.
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I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.
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I 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.
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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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“On my honor” – what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout’s Oath.
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We will not know Him, until we become like him.
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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 proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.
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Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
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Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body.
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