Ezra Taft Benson

God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.

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.

To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.