Thomas S. Monson Quotes

[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

I would like immortality.

To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

We get 80 years, maybe at the most 100. Trillions of years in eternity. This life is preparation for the next. This is the warm-up back, this is the dress rehearsal, this is the get ready, this is the first lap around the track before the real race begins because it is in eternity.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.

There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.