Ezra Taft Benson Quotes About Jesus Christ

Quotes about: Jesus Christ

• Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Meaningful, Jesus, Firsts

  "A Mighty Change of Heart". Ezra Taft Benson's First Presidency Message, www.lds.org. October 1989.

• No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Philosophy, Evil

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

• Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Book, Teaching

• The man [who] is greatest and most blessed and joyful [is one] whose life most closely approaches the pattern of Christ. This has nothing to do with earthly wealth, power, or prestige. The only true test of greatness, blessedness, joyfulness is how close can a life come to being like the Master, Jesus Christ. He is the right way, the full truth, and the abundant life.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Blessed, Greatness

• Marriage. . . is the most glorious and most exalting principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. No ordinance is of more importance and none more sacred and more necessary to the eternal joy of man. Faithfulness to the marriage covenant brings the fullest joy here and glorious rewards hereafter.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Marriage, Jesus, Men

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in which He performed His mission in the flesh was sired by that some Holy Being we worship as God, our Eternal Father. Jesus was not the son of Joseph, nor was He begotten by the Holy Ghost.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

• I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (3 Nephi 18:18). If you will earnestly seek guidance from your Heavenly Father, morning and evening, you will be given the strength to shun any temptation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Morning, Father

• Only Jesus Christ is uniquely qualified to provide that hope, that confidence, and that strength we need to overcome the world and rise above our human failings. To do so, we must place our faith in Him and live by His laws and teachings.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Teaching, Law

• The Book of Mormon is also the keystone of the doctrine of the Resurrection. As mentioned before, the Lord Himself has stated that the Book of Mormon contains the "fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ".

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Children, Book

  "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".

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