A.J. Benson Quotes
In life, there are dreary, empty days and there are exciting, full days. You will experience both, for you cannot choose one above the other. May your full days be many.
Stretched by an idea, we can aspire to new heights, new ways of thinking.
Humans are all too happy to keep company until the company turns out to be less appealing than solitude.
Absence of problems does not lead to happiness. Dealing with them does.
A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.
Some believe they can, Some believe that they cannot. Both are clearly right
You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed.
Anyone can talk, but to listen is a gift, we should all exchange
Among the many who fruitlessly attempted thoughout history to create a time machine, one individual actually succeeded. He was surprisingly not a human.
It doesn't matter how old you are, when you find your forever you just know.
Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.
Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Family jokes though rightly cursed by strangers are the bond that keeps most families alive.
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.
The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.
I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.
I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.
To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.
In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.
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.
Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.
If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
