Quotes from Ezra Taft Benson
The greatest test of life is obedience to God.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Food production is just one part of the repeated emphasis that you store a provision of food which will last for at least a year wherever it is legally permissible to do so.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The price of peace is righteousness.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.
- Ezra Taft Benson
In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.
- Ezra Taft Benson
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.
- Ezra Taft Benson
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.
- Ezra Taft Benson
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.
- Ezra Taft Benson