Ezra Taft Benson God Quotations

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.

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.

Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God.

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

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.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

God's revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the ark.

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.

I testify to you that God's pay is the best pay that this world or any other world knows anything about.

We should put God ahead of everyone else in our lives.

America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.

Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.

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.

No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.

In the beginning, God placed a woman in a companion role with the priesthood.

The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired.

If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.

Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.

He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.