Thomas S. Monson Quotes

God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.

I welcome the powers of the unknown.

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Well, I can't figure out God.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

It is good to love the unknown.

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton! Let each man hope and believe what he can.

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

I don't believe in a particular god, but I believe in the unknown. I believe that there's something bigger than us.

Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

I think there is more to this world than we can possibly fathom. There's got to be.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.