Thomas S. Monson Quotes

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.

We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our lives. We can start with our reasonable service: prayer, studying, fasting, tithing, fellowshipping, and witnessing.

There is a difference in just attending the temple and having a rich spiritual experience. The real blessings of the temple come as we enhance our temple experience. To do so, we must feel a spirit of reverence for the temple and a spirit of worship.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

Went to church and fasted all day.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

Hard as things seem today, they will be better in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord this day with your whole heart.

I see everything I do as an extension of the ministry. It's all about service.

I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.

We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

The groves were God's first temples.

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

Christian life means sacrifice.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

At the end of the day that's why I play the game, to glorify Him in everything I do and to compete for Him.

I have my work and my Jesus!

Obviously, with my faith, too, I don't want to seem like it's all about me, me, me. It takes away from what I do for Him, for the Lord.

The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is because I feel like that's the reason why I'm who I am today.

The mark of spirituality is the fragrance of Christ in our lives and the fragrance of Christ in every aspect of who we are as a person.