Thomas S. Monson

As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.

— Thomas S. Monson

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

— Thomas S. Monson

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.

— Thomas S. Monson

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

— Thomas S. Monson

Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind words to say. There are gifts to be given. There are deeds to be done. There are souls to be saved.

— Thomas S. Monson

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

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

— Thomas S. Monson

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

— Thomas S. Monson

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

— Thomas S. Monson

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

— Thomas S. Monson

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.

— Thomas S. Monson

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

— Thomas S. Monson

Choose your love, Love your choice.

— Thomas S. Monson

Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.

— Thomas S. Monson

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

— Thomas S. Monson

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

— Thomas S. Monson

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

— Thomas S. Monson

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

— Thomas S. Monson

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.

— Thomas S. Monson

Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.

— Thomas S. Monson

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

— Thomas S. Monson

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

— Thomas S. Monson

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

— Thomas S. Monson