Quotes from 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
The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY
- Ezra Taft Benson
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I have a vision of homes alerted, of classes alive, and of pulpits aflame with the spirit of Book of Mormon messages.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.
- Ezra Taft Benson
In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.
- Ezra Taft Benson
We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.
- Ezra Taft Benson