Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

How seriously have you personally taken the Lord's charge to share His gospel? It is a lifelong responsibility ... to be addressed differently according to the various seasons of your life.

Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

We must share the gospel with others. That is our responsibility-every member a missionary. That is the call of prophets of God. ...Member-missionary work is one of the great keys to the individual growth of our members. It is my conviction that member-missionary work will raise the spirituality in any ward where applied

A person is either a missionary or a mission field.

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace.

The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!

Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize

The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.

I wanted to thunder and roar out the Gospel to all nations. It burned in my bones like fire pent up... Nothing would satisfy me but to cry abroad in the world, what the Lord was doing in the latter days.

Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.

There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.

We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!

We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.

There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.

I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.

At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.

Devoted disciples of Jesus Christ always have been and always will be valiant missionaries. A missionary is a follower of Christ who testifies of Him as the Redeemer and proclaims the truths of His gospel.