Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged and lose hope.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Unless you and your mate are united in purpose, dedication, and loyalty, you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

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.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

The world is increasing in wickedness.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

In the beginning, God placed a woman in a companion role with the priesthood.

Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.