Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

We have to choose faith even if we don't feel it. Or hold on to a friend who has faith.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

We receive by faith and we keep it by faith.

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

Mary and Jesus had this extraordinary relationship between them. What a teacher Mary is, really. It is the ultimate trusting; that she had to trust God, that she was so privileged to be the mother of the Savior, that she had to stand there as a mother and watch her son being murdered and trust that that is what he came to do.

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.

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

As long as God gives me the strength to still minister and create, I'll do it.

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.

When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy.

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

I think it would be a welcome reminder to every American that we can pray a good deal more at home. We can attend our churches with a good deal more fidelity.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'