Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

I value the Lord more than I value my career, because at the end of the day, when we die, we face him. We're going to wish that we did more on this earth for him. And so I want to make sure that I'm doing everything to glorify him.

The mark of spirituality is the fragrance of Christ in our lives and the fragrance of Christ in every aspect of who we are as a person.

Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.

God's desire is that we excel.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

I know I need to be dependent on the Lord. I will try to do what he wants for the Young Women and to be a receptive servant while I'm on his errand.