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Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

Ezra Taft Benson

Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Heaven People Principle
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
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
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
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
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
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.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Bless Trial Wickedness
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
We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Clever Quiet Sin
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
Gods’ payment is the best payment.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Best God Payment
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Magazine Record Television
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
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Character Foundation Virtue
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Back Eventual Every Men Wall
Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Effort Goal May Unproductive

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