Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

For the majority of mankind, religion is a habit, or, more precisely, tradition is their religion. Though it seems strange, I think that the first step to moral perfection is your liberation from the religion in which you were raised. Not a single person has come to perfection except by following this way.

Christlikeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

You can change. You can 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.'

There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God's grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry.

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.