"The Lord works from the inside out.  The world works from the outside in.  The world would take people out of the slums.  Christ takes the slums out of the people, and then they take themselves out of the slums.  The world would mold men by changing their environment.  Christ changes men, who then change their environment.  The world would shape behavior, but Christ can change human nature."

 -Ezra Taft Benson, "Born of God," Ensign, Oct. 1985, 6. 

 “Just as a man does not really desire food until he is hungry, so he does not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ. No one adequately and properly knows why he needs Christ until he understands and accepts the doctrine of the Fall and its effect upon all mankind. And no other book in the world explains this vital doctrine nearly as well as the Book of Mormon.”

-Ezra T. Benson, 

Ensign, May 1987

"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 (Heavenly) Father and how familiar his face is to us." 

Ezra Taft Benson, Jesus Christ - Gifts and Expectations, BYU Speech, Dec 1974

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

-President Ezra T. Benson

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

Ezra Taft Benson
The Great Commandment - Love the Lord, Ensign, May 1988, 4