Quotes from Ezra Taft Benson

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.

A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.

What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.

I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds.

Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums.