Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Woman
  • Laugh
  • Lucky

• Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Humor
  • Hilarious
  • Event

• I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Source
  • Joys

• The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Value
  • Service

• Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Value
  • Stability
  • Endure

• Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • Good
  • Church

• Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Today
  • Experiences

• Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.

  

  Dale Evans
  • God
  • Gift
  • Priceless

• Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

  

  William Blake
  • Sorrows
  • Joys
  • Impregnate

• O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

  

  John Milton
  • Paradise
  • Joys
  • Fleeting

• I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long while, Being but a part of ancient ceremony Notorious, till all my priceless things Are but a post the passing dogs defile.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Long
  • Dog
  • Forgiveness

• A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Fears
  • Joys
  • Dramas

• Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Feelings
  • Goodness
  • Moved

• But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Wife
  • Enemy
  • Forgive

• Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Hope
  • Pleasure
  • Warrior

• There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Life
  • Consider
  • Priceless

• The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Joys

• He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • War
  • Hurt
  • Tree

• Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Soul
  • Sleep
  • Joys

• To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Environmental

• Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic — a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beauty
  • Temperament
  • Critic

• Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Home
  • Power
  • Creation

• If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Stone
  • Temple
  • Wisdom`s

• The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Joys
  • Priceless
  • Fellowship