Thomas S. Monson Quotes

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it's done and released, at that point it's up to God and what he does on the back end.

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 honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

A Christian without a God who hears them? That's not a place that one who truly serves Christ wants to find themselves.

The most important thing of all is that God is talking to me.

As always, I am receptive to whatever doors God may open.

I believe that whatever I do, after I've asked for guidance and direction from God, that whatever the results, these are the results of His guidance.

'I have always asked God to guide me in each of my tasks.

I think at times where I fail as a leader is probably when I haven't allowed the Holy Spirit to lead and when I do allow the Holy Spirit to handle it - I think that's when I'm most successful as a leader.

Once God puts something in your heart - you know, God talks to everyone different.

When God's leading and directing, you don't have to kick the doors open.

Be sure that those in whom you trust are led by God each day

...I came to realize that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and then when we're ready. He will plant our feet on the path that's best for us. . . but it's up to us to do the walking.

I attribute my talent and my success to God, but I believe that the only way you can manifest what He has ordained for you is by being close to Him and by making it happen. But we have to stay close to Him in order to be an image of Him.

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father

Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

God's way is better than your way. His plan is bigger than your plan. His dream for your life is more rewarding, more fulfilling, better than you've ever dreamed of. Now stay open and let God do it His way.

You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them

Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.

Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit - something which may be quite different.

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.

If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.