Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.

My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.

There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.

If Jesus Christ had taken a poll, he would never have preached the gospel.

We all need grace. We all need Christ.

I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.

There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.

That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

God’s grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.

In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as though they perished. But now that the Savior has raised his body, death is no longer terrible; for all who believe in Christ trample on it as it were nothing and choose rather to die than deny their faith in Christ. And that devil that once maliciously exulted in death, now that its pains were loosed, remained the only one truly dead.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.

I don't want revival...I WANT CHRIST! And if we have Christ, there will be a revival.