Quotes from Ezra Taft Benson
One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.
- Ezra Taft Benson
When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.
- Ezra Taft Benson
No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.
- Ezra Taft Benson
We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .
- Ezra Taft Benson
A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The high cost of low living.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there
- Ezra Taft Benson
'What would Jesus do?' or 'What would He have me do?' are the paramount personal questions of this life.
- Ezra Taft Benson
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
- Ezra Taft Benson