You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
Category Archive: Ezra Taft Benson
One of Satan’s most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.
When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.
A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.
Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.
The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes – but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.
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.