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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.
— Ezra Taft Benson life
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.
— Ezra Taft Benson love
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
— Ezra Taft Benson man
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
— Ezra Taft Benson time
Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.
— Ezra Taft Benson family
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 faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
— Ezra Taft Benson nature
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.
— Ezra Taft Benson sin
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.
— Ezra Taft Benson joy
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson soul
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
— Ezra Taft Benson power
The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.
— Ezra Taft Benson power
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.
— Ezra Taft Benson family
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.
— Ezra Taft Benson mind
Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.
— Ezra Taft Benson women
If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.
— Ezra Taft Benson friendship
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
— Ezra Taft Benson women
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 truth
Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.
— Ezra Taft Benson sin
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.
— Ezra Taft Benson men
Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.
— Ezra Taft Benson home
Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.
— Ezra Taft Benson friendship
I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.
— Ezra Taft Benson freedom
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.
— Ezra Taft Benson war
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.
— Ezra Taft Benson relationships
Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
— Ezra Taft Benson family

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