Thomas S. Monson Quotes

You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and in fact it will equip me to grow and grow and have a better and better ability to experience that direct presence.

You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.

The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

As we attend the temple, there can come to us a dimension of spirituality and a feeling of peace which will transcend any other feeling which could come into the human heart. We will grasp the true meaning of the words of the Savior when He said: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. … Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.

Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is.

Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you- for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart... don't listen to the demon, laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love.

God dwells wherever man lets Him in.

No matter what you do each day...or in life...doing things God's way is a matter of the heart.

In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with You there is help; I am restless, but with You there is peace. In me there is bitterness, but with You there is patience; I do not understand Your ways, But You know the way for me.” “Lord Jesus Christ, You were poor And in distress, a captive and forsaken as I am. You know all man’s troubles; You abide with me When all men fail me; You remember and seek me; It is Your will that I should know You And turn to You. Lord, I hear Your call and follow; Help me.

Prayer doesn't bend God's arm but it's guaranteed to bend our hearts toward His will. Worry less. Pray more.