Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

The seeds of divorce are often sown and the problems of children begin when Mother works outside the home.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their father in the rearing of your children. Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

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.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

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

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

God will not be mocked.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

From the Book of Mormon, we learn how disciples of Christ live in times of war.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

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

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.