Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being …

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

We must be agents of love.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!