Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

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Ezra Taft Benson

Profession : Leader

Birth : August 4, 1899

Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.

Ezra Taft Benson

Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.

Ezra Taft Benson

Try as you may, you cannot put the Lord in your debt. For every time you try to do His will, He simply pours out more blessings upon you.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

Ezra Taft Benson

Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.

Ezra Taft Benson

The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Ezra Taft Benson

What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.

Ezra Taft Benson

I cannot recall a time that I did not believe in Jesus Christ.

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 Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.

Ezra Taft Benson