01c. 1946 ADOur 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1946 ADMothers, 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1946 ADMothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
05c. 1946 ADOne who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
06c. 1946 ADDisobedience 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.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
07c. 1946 ADPride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
08c. 1946 ADI firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
09c. 1946 ADTo love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
10c. 1946 ADWe 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 / quote ↗
11c. 1946 ADYouth 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.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
12c. 1946 ADIn this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
13c. 1946 ADIf you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
14c. 1946 ADYears of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
15c. 1946 ADHusbands, 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.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
16c. 1946 ADDo not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
17c. 1946 ADThe Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
18c. 1946 ADThe true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
19c. 1946 ADIn general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
20c. 1946 ADAn almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
21c. 1946 ADThere 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.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
22c. 1946 ADThe privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
23c. 1946 ADFaith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
24c. 1946 ADA woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.Ezra Taft Benson / quote ↗
