Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Those who are heavy-laden with despair should come unto the Lord.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

  

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• In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  

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• Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

  

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• They did some things early on in there that threw us some curve balls. On defense, they did a real good coaching job on that part. We had to kind of struggle to get things going again, but we did control the ball, which is a big deal.

  

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• Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

  

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• I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.

  

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• Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

  

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• Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

  

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• Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.

  

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• It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

  

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• There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

  

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• How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

  

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• No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

  

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• Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  

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• The only thing I want to do is keep working and keep giving everything I can in every game.

  

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• You look at the Pew Hispanic Center study on the number of illegal aliens in America and the number of jobs they have, that's 7.4 million, illegal aliens in America. A quick way to create jobs in America is to remove those illegal aliens from our community. That frees up 7.4 million jobs that American can seek.

  

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• It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

  

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• Those who are heavy-laden with despair should come unto the Lord.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Despair
  • The Lord