Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
Ezra Taft Benson
Quotes to Explore
-
The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.
L. Lionel Kendrick
-
Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
Usher
-
We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
Taya Kyle
-
And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.
Ferdowsi
-
When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
Victoria Osteen
-
I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility - but luckily, in my case, it didn't.
Natasha Little
-
No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.
Aristotle
-
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?
Virginia Woolf
-
Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
Socrates
-
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
Socrates
-
As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and illuding answers. They easily perceive when they are slighted or deceived, and quickly learn the trick of neglect, dissimulation, and falsehood, which they observe others to make use of. We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children; since, if we play false with them, we not only deceive their expectation, and hinder their knowledge, but corrupt their innocence, and teach them the worst of vices.
John Locke
Nazareth
-
For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.
William J. H. Boetcker
