We will not know Him, until we become like him.
EZRA TAFT BENSONWe will not know Him, until we become like him.
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 BENSONWe cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.
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 BENSONThe Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
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 BENSONWithout goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
EZRA TAFT BENSONOur desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
EZRA TAFT BENSONWe live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.
EZRA TAFT BENSONSatan works through human agents.
EZRA TAFT BENSONThe so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.
EZRA TAFT BENSONOne 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?
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.
EZRA TAFT BENSONNothing 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 BENSONA father’s calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
EZRA TAFT BENSONGodly 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