Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

I know with all my heart and soul that God lives. I believe He will enlighten our lives with His love for each of us if we strive to be worthy of that love, in the holy name of Jesus Christ, amen.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.

All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.