Thomas S. Monson Quotes

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.

I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself to God. Heart, soul, and mind were the encompassing words of Christ in describing the first commandment, which is constantly, not periodically, operative (see Matt. 22:37). If kept, then our performances will, in turn, be fully consecrated for the lasting welfare of our souls (see 2 Ne. 32:9).

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

You always think "woulda, coulda, shoulda." I wish that I had prosecuted Tot Mom, I wish I'd prosecuted OJ, and I wish I had prosecuted the JonBenet Ramsey case.

I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.

I just wish I could walk into my Senator’s office and say, “Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko scientists…” But then again, I don’t think we have a Senator, do we? Is there a state where mutant freaks are represented? If so, let me know.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

I don't think there's ever a time where I step back and say I wish I was something different. I'm doing what I love to do.

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

There's moments when I think it's kind of silly and I wish I would've just stayed natural

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish