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Gods’ payment is the best payment.

Ezra Taft Benson

Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Agony Father Godly
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Believe Intelligent Successful
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
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Desire Lord Spiritual
Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Effort Goal May Unproductive
“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
Satan works through human agents.
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Agents Humans Satan
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

Evil People Resist Simply Sin Trying
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
When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener . . . where it is watered.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Better Get Justice Temptation

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