Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years will absolutely determine whether you pivot towards the world or towards the Lord.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

God can show you just what you need to give, even if you don't know exactly why you're giving it. That's why we should always seek God and prepare to give Him our very best.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

Christian life means sacrifice.

If we can develop the character and work with God, then let him develop the character of Christ in us, we're going to become the best possible husband, the best possible wife.

First and foremost, I live for God now. His plans for me are better than whatever I can think.

To achieve success wasn't to get into the major leagues or have the best season in the world. The best success is to live your life the way God wants you to.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed. Men and women changed for Christ will be captained by Christ. Their will is swallowed up in His will. They do always those things that please the Lord. Not only would they die for the Lord, but more important they want to live for Him. They stand as witnesses of God at all times, and in all things, and in all places. They have Christ on their minds, as they look unto Him in every thought. They have Christ in their hearts as their affections are placed on Him forever.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next.

If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.

The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.

Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him-without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, "I will do as you direct," is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.