black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness

Ezra Taft Benson

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.’
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Financial Men Religious Run
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.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Bless Trial Wickedness
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives — a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they will want to take advanced scientific courses and thereby help meet the needs of our times.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Engineering Math Technology
The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Effort Lord Please Tiny
The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Offended Opinion Pride Wish
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.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Face Father Heaven Surprise
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.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Missionary Order Successful
I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Enthusiasm Leader People Say
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Back Eventual Every Men Wall
Satan works through human agents.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Agents Humans Satan
Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Heaven People Principle
“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.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Boy Character Honor Summation
The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Country Movement People Right
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Communication Humility Kids
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.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Offend Wish Proud
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Deal Generosity Goal

It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ezra Taft Benson Quotes