Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.

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• You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Courage
  • Sins

• Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Forgiveness
  • Sins
  • Forgiven

• Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Lost
  • Forgiveness
  • Sins

• Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Sins
  • Martyrdom

• Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever!

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Stop
  • Eye
  • Sins

• Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Sins
  • Flesh

• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Pleasure
  • Regret

• There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Person
  • Influence

• The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

  

  James Cook
  • Sins
  • Repeat
  • Outcome

• There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Persons
  • Sins
  • Sponge

• The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Bible
  • Sins
  • Fathers

• By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Nature
  • Rule
  • Authority

• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Question
  • Sins
  • Welfare

• Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Love Is
  • Treasure
  • Sins

• There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Responsible
  • Blame
  • Salvation

• The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Sins
  • Seven
  • Deadly

• May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Help
  • Recognize

• Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

  

  Martin Luther
  • Men
  • Father
  • Son

• There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Giving
  • Action
  • Philosophy

• The worse a person is the less he feels it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Feels
  • Worse

• Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Fly
  • Ideal
  • Aspiration

• Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Power
  • Limits
  • Definition

• People fight not because they disagree,but because they don’t know they agree.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Fight
  • Disagree

• We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Sins
  • Slick