Quotes from Thomas S. Monson

Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

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

Pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good.

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier

There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart – and our neighbors as ourselves.

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.

It is imperative that we recognize that whatever has happened to us has happened to others. They have coped and so must we. We are not alone. Heavenly Father's help is near.

We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

May we show increased kindness toward one another, and may we ever be found doing the work of the Lord.

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.

[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God.

Testimony bearing is the key to missionary work

No force in this world can stop the work of God.

Together we shall move forward doing [the Lord's] work

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

I testify that when we do all we can to accomplish the work that is before us, the Lord will make available to us the sacred key needed to unlock the treasure which we so much seek.

The work is demanding, the impact everlasting. This is no time for 'summer soldiers' in the army of the Lord.

To catch the real meaning of the Spirit of Christmas, we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the Spirit of Christ.

As we seek Christ, as we find Him, as we follow Him, we shall have the Christmas spirit, not for one fleeting day each year, but as a companion always.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.

When we keep the spirit of Christmas, we keep the spirit of Christ, for the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit.