Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

I have a deep faith in God.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

I try to act out of faith.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

I definitely believe in God.

I do believe in God.

Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Give us a religion that will help us to live—we can die without assistance.

Religion is a disease, but a noble disease.

I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

I've been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don't have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Faith is never identical with piety.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.