Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon. – Ezra Taft Benson
I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land. – Ezra Taft Benson
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves. – Ezra Taft Benson
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. – 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
America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God’s own purposes. – Ezra Taft Benson
Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us. – Ezra Taft Benson
A young man who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord. – 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
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam. – Ezra Taft Benson
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings. – 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. – Ezra Taft Benson
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. – Ezra Taft Benson
I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon. – Ezra Taft Benson
Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States – a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history – which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days. – Ezra Taft Benson
Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms… Build up savings. – Ezra Taft Benson
I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom – good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen. – Ezra Taft Benson
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. – Ezra Taft Benson
The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired. – Ezra Taft Benson
Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God’s laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies. – Ezra Taft Benson
Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable. – Ezra Taft Benson
The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes – but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life. – Ezra Taft Benson
Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes. – Ezra Taft Benson
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! – Ezra Taft Benson
Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children’s needs. That decision can be most shortsighted. – Ezra Taft Benson
