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• Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

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  Music, Moving, Soul

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

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• 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

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• For nearly six thousand years, God has held you in reserve to make your appearance in the final days before the Second Coming of the Lord. . . . God has saved for the finalinning some of His strongest and most valiant children, who will help bear off the kingdom triumphantly. That is where you come in, for you are the generation that must be prepared to meet your God. . . .

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  Children, Years, Kingdoms

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• I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

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  Land, Constitution Of The United States, Sacred

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

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• 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

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• When you choose to follow Christ,
  you choose to be changed.

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  Missionary, Christ, Changed

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

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• We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

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  Party, Sound, Principles

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

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• An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

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  Cheating, Lying, Character

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• I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom. It will be saved by enlightened members of this Church-among others-men and women who understand and abide the principles of the Constitution....I testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government, and He has now sent other choice spirits to help preserve it.

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  Love, God, Faith

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• Each day the forces of evil and the forces of good enlist new recruits. Each day we personally make many decisions showing the cause we support. The final outcome is certain---the forces of righteousness will win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle---and how tall we will stand. Will we be true to our last days and fulfill our foreordained missions?

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  Winning, Evil, Decision

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• He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.

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  Men, Listening To God, Marquee

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• We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes.

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  Purpose, Coercion, Force

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

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• You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

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  Impossible, Righteousness, Feels Right

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

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• With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

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  Humility, Pride, Blessing

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• The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

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  Feel Better, Way, Circumstances

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

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• When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Quests

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• Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

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  Pride, Pits

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• I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.

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  Hope, Grateful, Blessing

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

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• True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

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  Heart, Behavior, Repentance

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

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• God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't rememer now, who yearn for our victory.

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  Heaven, Victory, Want

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• You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind.

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  Adversity, Thinking, Choices

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• The Holy Ghost causes our feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more calm in our relationships. We have a greater capacity to love each other. People want to be around us because our very countenances radiate the influence of the Spirit. We are more godly in our character. As a result, we become increasingly more sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and thus able to comprehend spiritual things more clearly.

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  Spiritual, Character, Godly

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• If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.

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  Praying, Should, Feels

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

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• Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

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  Heart, Pride, Thinking

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• Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily.

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  Cheerful

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

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