There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.
Category Archive: Ezra Taft Benson
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.
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.
Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by other arguments.
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.