Ezra Taft Benson Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• 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.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Children, Parent

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

• Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Growing Up, Stress, Sacrifice

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

• Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told... Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Book, Profound

• Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Teacher, Children, Husband

• I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Book, Home

• 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

  Children, Men, Righteous Man

  "The Honored Place of Woman". Ezra Taft Benson's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1981.

• Young people, your parents, with their maturity of years and experience you have not had, can provide wisdom, knowledge, and blessings to help you over life's pitfalls. You may find, that life's sweetest experiences come when you go to Mom and Dad for help.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mom, Dad, Blessing

• This is our first interest as a church-to save and exalt the souls of the children of men. There is no richer program anywhere in the world than we have in the Church today for the building of men and women and providing the answers to the problems that face parents, families, and individuals. It is a program that is needed today as never before.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Men, Church Today

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

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