Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Time
  • Actor

• There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Knowledge
  • Pride
  • Temptation

• I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • City
  • Chicago

• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • May
  • Age
  • Die

• My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • People
  • Writing
  • Family

• Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Real
  • Technology
  • Architecture

• Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Time
  • Different
  • Mind

• I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Imagine
  • Economic theory
  • Socialistic

• I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Speak
  • Praying
  • Jealous

• If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you – I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.

  

  Yasmina Reza
  • Women
  • Song
  • Dance

• I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • War
  • Glory
  • Gained

• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Music
  • Honor
  • Forget

• Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Profanity

• One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Sins
  • Profanity
  • Name Of God