Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Allah does not change social conditions until people change their attitude.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

A man must himself be cleansed, before cleansing others

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

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

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

I called record Prism because I actually finally let the light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Light in and doing some self-reflection and just kind of working on myself.

Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.