Ezra Taft Benson Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Girl, Strong, Integrity

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

• Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Years, Desire, Foolish

• Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Fear, Heart, Humble

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

• From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Philosophy, Father

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