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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.

Ezra Taft Benson

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
Gods’ payment is the best payment.
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Best God Payment
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
Satan works through human agents.
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Agents Humans Satan
The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.
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Country Movement People Right
A father’s calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
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Calling Eternity Father
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
The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
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Effort Lord Please Tiny
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
If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Bless Divine Feel Praying
Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
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Effort Goal May Unproductive
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
Humility 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.
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Humble Humility Mean
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.’
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Financial Men Religious Run
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Desire Lord Spiritual
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.

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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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