Quotes by Thomas S. Monson

About Thomas S. Monson:

Thomas Spencer Monson is an American religious leader, author, and the sixteenth and current President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). As president, Monson is considered by adherents of the religion to be a "prophet, seer, and revelator." A printer by trade, Monson has spent most of his life engaged in various church leadership positions and in public service.
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Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

Thomas S. Monson

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

Thomas S. Monson

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

Thomas S. Monson

Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.

Thomas S. Monson

Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the ve...

Thomas S. Monson

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.

Thomas S. Monson

May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

Thomas S. Monson

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

Thomas S. Monson

Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be someb...

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In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

Thomas S. Monson

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Thomas S. Monson

Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help?

Thomas S. Monson

Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Thomas S. Monson

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

Thomas S. Monson

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

Thomas S. Monson

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

Thomas S. Monson

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

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I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

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Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.

Thomas S. Monson

Author Bio

  • NameThomas S. Monson
  • Descriptionpresident of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
  • BornAugust 21, 1927
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPriest; Cleric