Thomas S. Monson Quotes

When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart.

It's excruciating to be away from your child.

My relationship with my kids is the one sad area of my life.

Jesus feels my sorrow greater than I, for his love is infinite, and he suffers in an infinite way.

Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

We are the sum of the Father's love for us

God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.

We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons.

No matter how much you love your spouse, you won't love them in the same way you do your baby. It's a different love, and everything changes. You have to figure out how to parent together.

My love for my son just destroys me. I can barely even talk about it.

The most that hurts is I couldn't see my kids growing up. They grow and go. Most of the time, I'm in training camps. I couldn't see that happening. This hurts me.

My daughter was two weeks old when I wrote 'White Wine in the Sun.' I can remember just sobbing and having to leave the room.

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

When my dad was still playing, he was away for five years on and off, so it just used to be me and my mum at home until my little brother came along when I was five.

My greatest love is my children, and they have inspired me to fight and stand up for the right things.

The moment you have children, it's like your heart gets out of your body, puts on clothes, and walks away.

Sometimes I think I've been a bad father.

'Winnie the Pooh's Grand Adventure' - the movie where Rabbit adopts a baby bird and raises her, and then the bird grows up and flies away and leaves him - I cried.

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.

God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?

Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted