"False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the……" — Ezra Taft Benson
"False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds."
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Ezra Taft Benson
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406 Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson has 406 quotes on this site.
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
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The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel…
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Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important…
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With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
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Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign…
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Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
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Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a…
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
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One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or…
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous…
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception…
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
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The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time…
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Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness…
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...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme…
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Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor,…
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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they…
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
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Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without…
— Paul Sarbanes
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It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony…
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