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 BENSONWithout goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
More Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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A father’s calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
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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.
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The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.
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If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.
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Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
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What would God have me do with my life?
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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.
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Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
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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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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.
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“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.
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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.
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One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?
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Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
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Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
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