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Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

~Ezra Taft Benson

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Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

~Ezra Taft Benson

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When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Changed Choose Christ Follow You

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Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.

~Ezra Taft Benson

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The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

~Ezra Taft Benson

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To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.

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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

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It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

~Ezra Taft Benson

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Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.

~Ezra Taft Benson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Leader

Born: August 4th, 1899

Died: May 30th, 1994

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