Satan works through human agents.
EZRA TAFT BENSONSatan works through human agents.
EZRA TAFT BENSONGods’ payment is the best payment.
EZRA TAFT BENSONWe live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.
EZRA TAFT BENSONWe 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 BENSONRecords, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.
EZRA TAFT BENSONHumility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.
EZRA TAFT BENSONTake 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 BENSONThe 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 BENSONWhen 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 BENSONOur 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 BENSONIt 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 BENSONWhen 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 BENSONEvery man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
EZRA TAFT BENSONFatherhood 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 BENSONFaith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
EZRA TAFT BENSONOne 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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