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Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

Ezra Taft Benson

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Desire Lord Spiritual
A father’s calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Calling Eternity Father
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one’s family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Desire Determination Fatherhood
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Character Foundation Virtue
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.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

First Jesus Meaningful
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
When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Father Thinking Year
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.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Children Grow Today
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.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Blessing Body Exercise
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Motherhood Responsibility School
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
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
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.
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Magazine Record Television
Gods’ payment is the best payment.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Best God Payment
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
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

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