Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

I think one of the most rewarding experiences in life is to see people come to Christ and make lifestyle changes. When that happens, you definitely see God behind it. This year we've seen eight students make first-time decisions for Christ and when I see that, it's a great feeling. I'm really thankful that God is changing somebody, or sometimes he's changing me.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

God has the potential of touching people's hearts and changing them.

If worship does not change us it has not been worship.

Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution of character which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is one that changes their ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations. It penetrates to the deepest layer of their soul. External, social arrangements may be used to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means