Ezra Taft Benson citations

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!”

“While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.”

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

“Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar His face is to us.”

“Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.”

“When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.”

“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.”

“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.”

“It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.”

“some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.”

“True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.”

“The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.”

“Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.”

“The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.”

“Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.”

“The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”

“The Lord works from the inside out.”

“With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.”