Benjamin Watson Quotes

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

The error of the Christian right is that in its attempt to codify the requirements of faith in a legislative program, it crowds out the demands of the Love Commandment …. ‘Thou shalt love they neighbor as thyself.’[

Your agency, the right to make choices, is not given so that you can get what you want. This divine gift is provided so that you will choose what your Father in Heaven wants for you. That way He can lead you to become all that He intends you to be.

What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

Being a model and an actress, I feel we a have a responsibility towards society.

God put us on this earth with the purpose of loving.

The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.

People have to realize that God has blessed me with power. He hasn't got me this far for no reason. I feel like God has a plan for me in this sport. That's how I have came up this fast.

I am realizing that there are opportunities everyday to encourage, evangelize, or exhort someone.

People don't really understand how important our voices are. I think there's a lot of athletes that don't use their power that really should.

When you have a biblical idea of men's strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others.

When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.

I'm not a pastor. I'm not a man of the cloth, but I have my own calling.

I am just here to serve God's will.

I'm going to do what God wants me to do.

As an artist, we have a big influence, and we should always think if we are doing more harm than good to our viewers. We should serve as a model to them.

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings both in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, along with your most worthy bishop and his spiritual crown, your presbyters, and with the deacons, who are men of God.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.

When you accept the fact that God is determined about you and you add to it your determination about Him, I am telling you there'll be no stopping you from fulfilling the absolutely God-ordained destiny He has for you.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me