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The greatest test of life is obedience to God.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Ezra Taft Benson
Age: 94 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 4
Died: 1994
Died: May 30
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Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
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I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.
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I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.
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For years we have heard of the role the Elders could play in saving the Constitution from total destruction. But how can the Elders be expected to save it if they have not studied it and are not sure if it is being destroyed or what is destroying it.
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Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
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Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that ‘it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority … they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.’
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Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best.
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A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
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Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.
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If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.
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Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?
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God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?
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The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.
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Have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.
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Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.
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The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
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