562 Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson

Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation

Those who are heavy-laden with despair should come unto the Lord.

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY

The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

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