Ezra Taft Benson

Notable Quotes



Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

From Ezra Taft Benson

Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.

From Ezra Taft Benson

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

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Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

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When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

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The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums.

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Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

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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.

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A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

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