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Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

1899–1994

Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994) was an American farmer and religious leader, serving as United States Secretary of Agriculture during both presidential terms of Dwight D. Eisenhower and as thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1985 until his death.

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One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson (1988)

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

The Lord works from the inside out.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ezra Taft Benson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.