Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.

Those who think clean thoughts do not do dirty deeds.

I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

What would God have me do with my life?

There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home.

Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.

The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation.

For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions.

To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.

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.

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through home production and storage, but others as well.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year.

In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.

If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.

This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.

We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.

A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.

Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

A good name is still to be preferred to great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily.

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love.

We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes.

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

We need missionaries to match our message.

Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

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.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?