Ezra Taft Benson quotes

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power. (Ezra Taft Benson)
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible! View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others? weaknesses and fault. Kindness is extended to all--to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of stations as well as the high. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. (Ezra Taft Benson)
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
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. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
He who kneels before God, can stand before any man. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order. (Ezra Taft Benson)
To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson