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Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right and knowing you'll eventually win for keeps - this

Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right and knowing you'll eventually win for keeps - this is the tonic every true Christian patriot needs and deserves.

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Christian, Heart, Sleep
Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

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Generosity, Goal, Deals

Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.

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People, Heaven, Principles

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

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Sister, Brother, Humble

Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

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Offended You, Wish, Proud

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

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Desire, Want, Christ

Give me a young man who has kept himself morally clean and has faithfully attended his church meetings. Give me a young man who has magnified his priesthood and has earned the Duty of God Award and is an Eagle Scout. Give me a young man who is a Seminary graduate and has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon. Give me such a young man, and I will give you a young man who can perform miracles for the Lord in the mission field and throughout his life.

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Book, Men, Awards
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of the world; but unless we keep alive a realization that all these blessings come from God and are a part of our great spiritual heritage, they may crumble as ashes in our hands. "In nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things and obey not his commandments."

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Spiritual, Men, Blessing

Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.

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Men, Deceived, Word Of God
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.

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Believe, Men, Rights
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best.

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Mother, Children, Parent
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

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Effort, Tiny, Lord
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

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Wall, Men, Every Man
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

Those who think clean thoughts do not do dirty deeds.

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Dirty, Thinking, Deeds
Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the basic concepts and principles upon which this nation has been established. Yes, they need to develop a love for our free institutions.

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Country, Voting, Honor
Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.

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Men, Gods Will, Turns
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.

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Generosity, Goal, Judging

Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.

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Home, Successful, Immorality
Ezra Taft Benson (1960). “So shall ye reap: selected addresses”

I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died

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Promise, Attendance, Temples
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first studying the inspired words of the prophets and using that as a foundation; against which to test all other material. This is in keeping with the Prophet Joseph Smith's motto, "When the Lord commands, do it."

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Tests, Way, Firsts
Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

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Character, Men, World
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

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World, Communism, Substitutes

If we would truly seek to be more like our Savior and Master, learning to love as He loves should be our highest goal

Ezra Taft Benson
Marriage, Goal, Should
Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.

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Children, Growing, Today

If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.

Ezra Taft Benson
Generosity, Lord, Turns

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