Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents—Adam and Eve. They labored together; they had children together; they prayed together; and they taught their children the gospel together. This is the pattern God would have all righteous men and women imitate.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Woman

• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Children
  • Money
  • Struggle

• A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Strength

• Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • God
  • Mind
  • Help

• Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Parents
  • Idea
  • Saying

• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Good
  • Parents

• The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Time
  • Marriage
  • Period

• You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Important
  • Family
  • Business

• I believe in traditional marriage.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • I Believe

• What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Remember
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Woman
  • Faithful
  • Restaurant

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Moral

• However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

  

  John Sergeant Wise
  • Children
  • May

• For a long time I've been walking down life's road with my two pals, Bad Luck and Bad Choices. Fortunately I'm a big believer in new beginnings, new friends, and running from my problems. So one day I decided to head for the island. Aloha, my name is Jack.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Writing
  • May
  • True

• My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'

  

  Asif Kapadia

• Steakhouses serve these big steaks. The first piece is hot, and the last piece is cold. The way I like to eat is to try three or four cuts of meat. People should actually be eating less meat, and the meat they eat should be special.

  

  Jose Andres
  • People
  • Cold

• Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents—Adam and Eve. They labored together; they had children together; they prayed together; and they taught their children the gospel together. This is the pattern God would have all righteous men and women imitate.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Children
  • Parents