Thomas S. Monson Quotes

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

The Lord needs women who will step forward in righteousness and say, 'Here am I, send me.'

People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit.

If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

Your legal career is but a means to an end, and... that end is building the kingdom of God.

I'm continuing to do what I have always done, which is minister to people with the ultimate goal of fulfilling God's plans for my life and ministry.

I am just here to serve God's will.

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.

I've always believed in God. I remember once a guy asked me what it was like to be self-employed. I said, I'm not self employed. I work for God. The pay is good; He works me hard.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.

Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.

I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.

As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.

Brethren, let us mind our own business - that is, the calling the Lord has called us to - to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, 'What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?'

The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.