Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

As we strive to align our attitudes and actions with righteousness, then the Holy Ghost becomes for us today what the Liahona was for Lehi and his family in their day. The very factors that caused the Liahona to work for Lehi will likewise invite the Holy Ghost into our lives. And the very factors that caused the Liahona not to work anciently will likewise cause us to withdraw ourselves from the Holy Ghost today.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

I follow my gut and the prompting of my spirit in all things, small and big.

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

Conscience is God present in man.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.

In George W. Bush's case, the public paid far too little attention to the role of religion in his thinking. Many voters failed to appreciate that while Bush's religious beliefs may be moderate Methodist ones, he was someone who relied on his faith immoderately, as an alternative to rational understanding of complex issues.

I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determine whether your viewpoints are right or wrong.

God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.

You can't base your decisions on anyone's opinion but yours and God's.

With the gift of the Holy Ghost comes the ability to develop a powerfully sensitive capacity to make the right choices. Cultivate that gift. As the Lord has said, that is accomplished by consistent, righteous living. As you enhance your capacity to sense the direction of that infallible influence, you will avoid disappointment, discouragement, and even tragedy.

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

The trust is a matter of love and faith is a matter of truth. The two together give you the guidance that you look for.

Here's the grey rule: embrace things that lead you closer to Jesus, and reject things that lead you away from Jesus.

It is not my place to make judgments about the behavior of any other footballer. Cars and women, things like that, have never been important to me. My family, and my belief in God and Jesus are the things which determine my life. I do want to live my life in the right way, and live my life close to God.

Religion will never show the way.