Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Bensonwas an American farmer, government official, and religious leader who served as United States Secretary of Agriculture during both presidential terms of Dwight D. Eisenhower and as thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsfrom 1985 until his death in 1994. He was the last president of the LDS Church born in the 19th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth4 August 1899
CountryUnited States of America
spiritual blessing law
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.
growth becoming lifetime
Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
blessed desire want
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
years desire foolish
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
brother trying motive
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
school experience fool
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
true-friend joy fellowship
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.
offended-you wish labels
Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.
pride sin-of-pride sin
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
mean humble proud
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
blessing trials wickedness
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
heart humble heaven
To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.
doe wickedness
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
hands baptism gains
Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.