Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

  

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• It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

  

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• Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

  

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• Only by presupposing God's prior and inconceivable forgiveness can the limitations of human good will be transcended, and only thus can the danger of human pride be avoided.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
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• Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
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• Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

  

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• A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!

  

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• I signed this measure with a deep sense of pride that the United States is an open society in which the people's right to know is cherished and guarded.

  

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• Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.

  

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• I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.

  

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• I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

  

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• We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

  

  David Brainerd
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• I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.

  

  Jodi Benson
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• While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants?

  

  Keith Ellison
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• In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
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• I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.

  

  Betty Wright
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• I feel, since 2001, this huge need for Americans to have superheroes on the screen. This idea that a super-being will protect you. That this being can go above the law but, at the end of the day, would be a good force and defeat the evil. This idea that this half-god exists. This need in the subconscious of America to find these gods.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
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• My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.

  

  Zoey Deutch
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• So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

  

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• Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.

  

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• Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
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• It's only one game. It's not the end of the world.

  

  Bob Hartley
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• Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Pride
  • Competition