Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

You had to wear a hat to go to church. We weren't allowed to straighten our hair. We couldn't wear jewellery, nail polish, open backed shoes, skirts above the knee... trousers were forbidden because male apparel on a female was not godly.

God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.

I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy.

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.

Science and Revelation here In perfect harmony appear,, Guiding young feet along the road Through grace and Nature up to God

We desire to repose at the feet of your Holiness the assurance of our filial loyalty of our devotion to your August Person, as well as our firm resolve to be guided in all our work by the teaching of Christ, and to be guided in all our work by the teaching of Christ, and to strive for the attainment of a social order in Ireland based on Christian principles.

We want to reach out to the young people. We want the hearts of the young people to turn to God.

We're all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

When you objectively observe the most spiritual area to which modern people devote themselves, the religions, ask yourself if the basis of modern culture, particularly in religion, is not human self-interest. It is typical of modern sermons that the preacher criticizes people for their selfishness.

I believe in God and the power of prayer.

Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.

I know that Christ doesn't say it's gonna be an easy life, but he's there to get us through it. I believe with all my heart the Bible to be true.

In Pope Francis, I see a leader who lives every day in the image of Jesus. Under his guidance, the church is focused once again on providing comfort, compassion and salvation for sinners, the poor, and those who seek peace in an increasingly complex world. That's my Catholicism.

When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to Heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'

I got a little advice for everybody: marry the girl who's going to get you to heaven.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.