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Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

~Ezra Taft Benson

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Young adults enrolled in universities and colleges or other postsecondary training should avail themselves of the opportunity to take institute of religion courses or, if attending a Church school, should take at least one religion course every term.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Adult At Least One Attending Avail Church Colleges Course Courses Enrolled Every Institute Least Opportunity Other Religion School Should Take Term Themselves Training Universities Young Young Adults

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Nations cannot endure in sin.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Cannot Endure Nations Sin

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God will not be mocked.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: God Mocked Will

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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.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Before Beginning Beings Birth Death End Eternal Eternity Faces Intelligent Life Lived Living Mortal Now Our Part Spirits Us Which

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No other single influence has had so great an impact on this earth as the life of Jesus the Christ.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Christ Earth Great Had Impact Influence Jesus Life Other Single

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Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in an expensive neighborhood. Almost everyone would, it seems, like to keep up with the Joneses.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Almost Almost Everyone Commit Everyone Expensive Family House Itself Keep Larger Like Make Many More Needed Neighborhood Order Proper Seems Showing Than Up Will Would

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We all know of families who have obligated themselves for more than they could pay. There is a world of heartache behind such cases.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Behind Cases Could Families Heartache Know More Obligated Pay Than Themselves Who World

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Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Education Efficient Family Give Higher Living More Opportunities Saving Security Spending Standard Will

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Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

~Ezra Taft Benson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Leader

Born: August 4th, 1899

Died: May 30th, 1994

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