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Ezra Taft Benson


American
August 4, 1899
Leader
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When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.


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A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.


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Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.


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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.


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Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.
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To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.
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The seeds of divorce are often sown and the problems of children begin when Mother works outside the home.
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Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.


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Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
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Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
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Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.
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Tags: You Your Will
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
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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.
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Tags: Good Music Beauty
Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
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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.
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We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.
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Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
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Tags: God Power Teacher
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
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Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.
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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.
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Tags: Respect Up Always
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.
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