Quotes from Ezra Taft Benson
I testify to you that God's pay is the best pay that this world or any other world knows anything about.
- Ezra Taft Benson
It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.
- Ezra Taft Benson
What would God have me do with my life?
- Ezra Taft Benson
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.
- Ezra Taft Benson