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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

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
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
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
“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
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
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Heart Joy Want
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.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Humble Humility Mean
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
It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness
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Evil People Resist Simply Sin Trying
We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.
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Clever Quiet Sin
Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Effort Goal May Unproductive
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
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
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
Satan works through human agents.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Agents Humans Satan
If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Bless Divine Feel Praying

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.

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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.

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