Top 100 E F Benson Quotes
#1. If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.
Anna Benson
#2. The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs greatly from what the world thinks of love. Charity never seeks selfish gratification. The pure love of Christ seeks only the eternal growth and joy of others.
Ezra Taft Benson
#3. When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
Ezra Taft Benson
#4. Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.
Ezra Taft Benson
#5. Those who are heavy-laden with despair should come unto the Lord.
Ezra Taft Benson
#6. When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive
Ezra Taft Benson
#7. Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller.
Amber Benson
#8. Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body.
Ezra Taft Benson
#9. I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.
Robby Benson
#10. One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.
Greg Benson
#11. I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.
Craig Benson
#12. I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.
George Benson
#13. I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died
Ezra Taft Benson
#15. If there are two takeaways from this book, we hope they are: Work unseen is work uncontrolled and We can't (and shouldn't!) do more work than we can handle.
Jim Benson
#16. Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.
Ezra Taft Benson
#17. Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
Ezra Taft Benson
#18. People do not lose respect for a man when he's down. They lose it when he refuses to get up.
Robert Benson
#20. It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.
Ezra Taft Benson
#21. Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Stella Benson
#22. Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.
Ezra Taft Benson
#23. The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.
Ezra Taft Benson
#24. I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.
Amber Benson
#25. Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?
Ezra Taft Benson
#26. The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.
Ezra Taft Benson
#27. Sharing oft leaves less.
But with love the more we share,
the fuller our hearts.
J. Benson
#28. I've had a lot of different companies. I've been in banking and automobiles and real estate and a lot of things.
Tom Benson
#29. When life caves in, you do not need reasons
you need comfort. You do not need some answers
you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation
He comes to us with His presence.
Bob Benson
#30. I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.
Ezra Taft Benson
#31. When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.
King Samuel Benson
#32. Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.
Ezra Taft Benson
#33. The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
A. C. Benson
#34. I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.
Ezra Taft Benson
#35. He exhibited three portraits, each a masterpiece, which killed every picture within range.
E.F. Benson
#36. The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
Stella Benson
#37. The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.
Stella Benson
#38. We sometimes look among our numbers to find one to whom we can point who agrees with us, so we can have company to justify our apostasy. We rationalize by saying that someday the Church doctrine will catch up with our way of thinking. Truth is not established by Gallup polls.
Ezra Taft Benson
#39. I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.
Stella Benson
#40. A customer facing crucial decisions:
What should I wipe myself with? What should I brush with? His personal hygiene was deteriorating rapidly as he stared at the rows of possibilities, sweating profusely. Would he ever bathe again?
Benson Bruno
#41. 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.
Ezra Taft Benson
#42. I cannot recall a time that I did not believe in Jesus Christ.
Ezra Taft Benson
#43. Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
Ezra Taft Benson
#44. Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.
Ezra Taft Benson
#46. The paradox of worship is this: we perform these acts of worship, but they are not actually for us. We do these things for God, and then we are the ones who are changed.
Robert Benson
#47. Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.
Ezra Taft Benson
#48. I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man.
Doug Benson
#49. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.
Ezra Taft Benson
#50. The music paled like a candle and went out ...
Stella Benson
#51. The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.
Robert Hugh Benson
#52. We urge you to do all within your talent and means to build the kingdom of God on Earth. Always strive to sustain, support and do what is best for the kingdom of God.
Ezra Taft Benson
#53. The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress ... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.
Herbert Benson
#54. Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.
Margaret Benson
#55. Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.
Ezra Taft Benson
#56. Personal prayer does not dispense us from corporate prayer. The one sustains the other.
Robert Benson
#57. Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.
Ezra Taft Benson
#58. Her grammar in moments of emergency always impressed Kew.
Stella Benson
#59. Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
E.F. Benson
#60. You've got to enjoy every day and make the best of it and go forward.
Tom Benson
#61. I think that the only way that you're going to succeed anywhere is to fail, as crazy as that sounds. It's the only way. You have to fail your way up.
Omar Benson Miller
#62. We are successful
the moment we start toward
a laudable goal
J. Benson
#63. If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.
Herbert Benson
#64. Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
Ezra Taft Benson
#65. It is noteworthy, however, that this areas also contains neurons which when stimulated can trigger female sexual posturing (Benson, 1988; Rose, 1990); i.e. the lordosis (or "doggie") position. These latter neurons are interconnected with the amygdala and ventromedial hypothalamus--nuclei
R. Joseph
#66. I think that I have this core group of fans that fell in love with the character I played on Buffy and now they're following me to everything I do. They're very dedicated and loyal. I'm very lucky.
Amber Benson
#67. Humans are all too happy to keep company until the company turns out to be less appealing than solitude.
Thor Benson
#68. I'm sitting, waiting to get on the freeway, and I'm waiting my ass off. I look over at the side of the road, and there's a hitchhiker with a sign and it says, 'Pick me up, and you can drive in the carpool lane.' I got to tell you, he was kind of smelly, but he was a good conversationalist.
Doug Benson
#69. God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.
Ezra Taft Benson
#70. Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.
Ezra Taft Benson
#71. 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.
George Benson
#72. You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.
Stella Benson
#74. 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.
Ezra Taft Benson
#75. There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
Ezra Taft Benson
#76. I am a follower of Jesus. My husband really brought me to the Lord when I was 18 and I am so lucky to have a platform through the studio.
Jodi Benson
#77. The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.
George Benson
#78. P. Diddy's gonna be exhausted, you know, running with the Olympic torch in one hand and the torch he'll always carry for J-Lo in the other.
Doug Benson
#79. Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.
Stella Benson
#80. Tom Cruise shouldn't try to win Oscars. He should just smile and kick people in the face and leave the acting to Hugh Jackman. Why Hugh Jackman? I dunno; come up with your own example, smart-ass.
Doug Benson
#81. Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.
Ezra Taft Benson
#82. I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.
Anna Benson
#83. It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
A. C. Benson
#84. Sometimes I wish that I could sing or dance or paint or compose symphonies or build cathedrals to express somehow what all of this means to me. I wish I were a priest or a robin or a child or a sunset.
Robert Benson
#85. The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.
Ezra Taft Benson
#86. Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
Ezra Taft Benson
#87. Study the scriptures and study the mortals who have been most consistently accurate about the most important things. When your freedom and your eternal welfare are at stake, your information best be accurate.
Ezra Taft Benson
#88. Kate Benson is an expert in applying NLP in the education sector. She is thoroughly organised, highly skilled and the love for what she teaches comes across in her presentations. I guarantee you will have a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
Richard Bandler
#89. 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
#90. Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.
Doug Benson
#91. I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.
Ezra Taft Benson
#92. 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
#94. The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.
Ezra Taft Benson
#95. No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
Ezra Taft Benson
#96. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means "hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition." It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#97. I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.
Jodi Benson
#99. Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.
Ezra Taft Benson
#100. Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
Ezra Taft Benson
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