Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the necessity of faith when facing difficult choices or challenges in life.
Ezra Taft Benson's quote suggests that in times of crisis or adversity, individuals reach a point where they must confront their beliefs and values. This 'wall of faith' symbolizes a crucial moment when a person must decide whether to rely on their convictions to proceed, highlighting the importance of inner strength and resolve in overcoming obstacles.
In practice
During a motivational speech about dealing with life challenges.
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."
Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.
To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.
I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it.
I was once afraid of people saying, βWho does she think she is?β Now I have the courage to stand and say, βThis is who I am.
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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