"Fatherhood is not a matter of station or……" — Ezra Taft Benson
"Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters."
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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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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
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With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
— Pablo Neruda
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Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's…
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I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that…
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[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he…
— William J. Clinton
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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the…
— Richard Le Gallienne
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It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of…
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