Quotes from Ezra Taft Benson
If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.
- Ezra Taft Benson
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep's clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
- Ezra Taft Benson
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
- Ezra Taft Benson
If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.
- Ezra Taft Benson
No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The United States of America has been great because it has been free.
- Ezra Taft Benson