Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Saints need sinners.

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

We are all sinners.

In Ezekiel, chapter 33, verse 11, it says, that 'God has no pleasure in the person that's living in sin.' He's a loving God and he wants people to turn away from what they're living in and he'll give them life. That's the message I'm trying to share, even though it comes across as harsh.

I know I'm a sinner.

Jesus is coming back for a church without a spot or a wrinkle. His righteous blood covers the spots and the wrinkles of those who believe unto righteousness, allowing once sinful men to be holy.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

There are no unforgivable sins.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.