Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

We love most those who we serve most.

. . . the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of greater importance. Let us open our eyes and see the heavy hearts, notice the loneliness and despair; let us feel the silent prayers of others around us; and let us be an instrument in the hands of the Lord to answer those prayers.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody else?" Whether that means sending something to one of my children or picking up the phone and calling a stranger who is in the hospital, I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

I love helping people.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

My faith is central to everything I do. My faith position is a Good Samaritan position of trying to watch out for the other person.

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.

Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world

That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.

Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned.

Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.