Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Thomas S. Monson
Thomas S. Monson
American Clergyman
Born: Aug 21, 1927
Died: Jan 2, 2018
Christmas Faith God Life Will You
Related authors: Billy Graham Charles R. Swindoll Gordon B. Hinckley Henry Ward Beecher Jim Elliot Joel Osteen John C. Maxwell Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. Thomas S. Monson
Happiness Christmas Time People Joy Thought Values Giving Others Finding See Spirit Self True Because Without Forgetting Getting Meaningless Stressing
The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things. Thomas S. Monson
Life Love Christmas Soul People World Picture Goodness Become Busy Out Spirit Window More Generosity Look Than Interested Busy Life Illuminates Things
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. Thomas S. Monson
Great Disappointment Courage Face Trouble Living Humility Trial Cheerfulness Principles Greatly Capacity Include
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith. Thomas S. Monson
Life Future Faith Frame Purpose Caution Friends Plan Your Choose
My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it. Thomas S. Monson
Love Christmas True Love You Love Is Reflection Year Savior See Brothers Spirit Brothers And Sisters True Feel Call Hear Sisters December Each Each Year
Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season. Thomas S. Monson
Christmas Joy Focus Savior Gifts Find Finding Hurrying Purchasing More Make Real Nor Get Done Found Season
Do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle. Thomas S. Monson
You Will Ability Miracle Performance Equal Pray Pray For Tasks Then Your
My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year. Thomas S. Monson
Love Christmas Long Year Down Tree Our Our Lives Brothers Spirit Brothers And Sisters Put Lights Another Linger Sisters May After Which Fill Homes Away Lives
What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps. Thomas S. Monson
Christmas Gratitude You Gift Will Year Living Savior Our Our Lives Our Lord Following Give Footsteps Lord His Us Teachings Let Us Lives
There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves. Thomas S. Monson
Love Christmas God Time Heart Better Christ Our Neighbors Ourselves Better Time Principles Lord Very Than Taught To Love Us Now Season Jesus
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. Thomas S. Monson
Self-Respect Respect Integrity Say Would Individual Perhaps Surest Test His Refusal Anything Damage
Find someone who is having a hard time, or is ill, or lonely, and do something for him or her. Thomas S. Monson
Time Lonely Find Someone Something Having Him Hard Ill Who Hard Time Her
We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become. Thomas S. Monson
Men Become Must See Develop May Capacity Present
There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth. Thomas S. Monson
Happiness Truth World Will Nothing More Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Comfort Testimony Provide Than
Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done. Thomas S. Monson
Good Me You Feel Good Honor Will Delay Enough Gave Back Run Never He Feel Know Well Well Enough Knows Makes Lord Am Errand Get Done Pace Realize Then Stand Who Even
On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve. Thomas S. Monson
Achieve Strive Degrees Make Occasion Accomplish Effort May Required Many Second Fourth Need Third
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. Thomas S. Monson
Faith Daily Confusion Living Our Our Lives Anchor Abide Becomes Times Conflicts Turmoil Amidst Lives Conscience
The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day. Thomas S. Monson
God Day Every Way Strive Week Him Each Each Day Season Near
You see your children growing. You look at your grandchildren, and you say to yourself, 'What if I weren't here? Have I done all I can to prepare them for their role in life?' You realize that you never quite do everything, but you want to do better than what you have done. Thomas S. Monson
Life You Yourself Better Everything Say See Never Look Were Than Role What If Done Quite Children Want Grandchildren Them Realize Your Prepare Growing Here
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t. Thomas S. Monson
Work Win Will Wishing T Won
The sweetest feeling you can have in this world is to feel the hand of the Lord upon your shoulder. In my patriarchal blessing as a boy, I was promised that I would have the gift of discernment. I have to acknowledge that such a declaration has been abundantly fulfilled in my life. Thomas S. Monson
Life You Blessing World Gift My Life Feeling Has-Been Promised Would Feel Abundant Discernment Boy Lord Been Hand Patriarchal Acknowledge Declaration Fulfilled Shoulder Your Sweetest
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval. Thomas S. Monson
Smile God Courage Approval Compromise Brings
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Thomas S. Monson
Faith Time Mind Will Doubt Other Exist Same Same Time Cannot Dispel
In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality. Thomas S. Monson
Reality Mortality Explorers Even Travelers
Many years ago, it was my opportunity to serve as president of the Canadian Mission. There we had a branch with very limited priesthood. We always had a missionary presiding over the branch. I received a strong impression that we needed to have a member of the branch preside there. Thomas S. Monson
Strong Opportunity Priesthood President Member Had Over Mission Missionary Limited Always Years Years Ago Impression Very Branch Canadian Many Serve Received Needed
The reward of eternal life requires effort. Thomas S. Monson
Life Reward Effort Eternal Eternal Life Requires
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