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E F Benson Inspirational Quotes (205)

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Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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.
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Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
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Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued being happy engrosses the whole attention.
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In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.
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Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
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It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
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We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.
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To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the basic concepts and principles upon which this nation has been established. Yes, they need to develop a love for our free institutions.
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We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.
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Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
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True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.
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We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.
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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.
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Encourage your children to come to you for counsel with their problems and questions by listening to them every day. Discuss with them such important matters as dating, sex, and other matters affecting their growth and development, and do it early enough so they will not obtain information from questionable sources.
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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.
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He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.
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Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
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The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.
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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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Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
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