Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Don't we all want what's best for each other?

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.

We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Help one another: this is what Jesus teaches us and this what I am doing, and doing with all my heart.

Goodness Is oneness-love In perfect action.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.

I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.