Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.
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Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.
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At the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Supreme Court on the aspect of money and power getting precedence over justice.
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With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.
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There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.
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The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
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Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.
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Only the prophets see the obvious.
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It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .
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Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match.
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It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.
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Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.
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Football, bloody hell!
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If we let Korea down, the Soviets will keep right on going and swallow up one place after another.
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Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.
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Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.
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I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
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Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.
