Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.

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

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.

God deserves the best from us.

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

It was the Lord's love and my recognition of His presence in my life that made me realize how important it was to give Him the glory and be there for Him.

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.

Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.