Ezra Taft Benson

Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.

If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

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.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain His presence. Our Father promised a Savior to redeem them from their fallen condition.

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

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.