"Selfishness is one of the more common faces……" — 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."
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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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I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
— Tyra Banks
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
— Henry Adams
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them…
— Danny Boyle
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
— Samuel Butler
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With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
— David Byrne
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
— Eric Cantona
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in…
— Amy Chua
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's…
— William J. Clinton
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Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on…
— Kurt Cobain
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Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
— Jennifer Aniston
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