Thomas S. Monson Quotes - Page 12

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• Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Book, Reading, Mass Culture

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• Difficulties allow us to change for the better.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Change For The Better, Difficulty

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• Have we been guilty of declaring, 'I've been thinking about making some course corrections in my life. I plan to take the first step-tomorrow'? With such thinking, tomorrow is forever. Such tomorrows rarely come unless we do something about them today.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Thinking, Forever, Firsts

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• No one can make us angry. It is our choice.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Choices, Our Choices, Angry

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• With a strong testimony of the Savior and His restored gospel, you have limitless opportunities to shine.

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  Strong, Opportunity, Shining

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• May we realize how close to us He is willing to come, how far He is willing to go to help us and how much He loves us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  May, Helping, Realizing

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• It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Roots, Shifting, Approval

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2014

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• Clearly, one primary purpose of our existence upon the earth is to obtain a body of flesh and bones. We have also been given the gift of agency. In a thousand ways we are privileged to choose for ourselves. Here we learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that there are consequences attached to our actions.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sweet, Agency, Evil

  "The Race of Life". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2012.

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• Prayer continues to provide power--spiritual power. Prayer continues to provide peace--spiritual peace.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Spiritual Peace

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• The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and themselves. If she is unskilled, she leaves scars on the lives of youth, cuts deeply into their self-esteem, and distorts their image of themselves as human beings. But if she loves her students and has high expectations of them, their self-confidence will grow, their capabilities will develop, and their future will be assured.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Attitude, Self Esteem

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• Noah heeded God’s command to build an ark…that they might be saved from the floodwaters. Yet there was no evidence of rain and flood. His actions were considered irrational. The sun was shining and life moved forward as usual. But time ran out. The floods came, the disobedient were drowned. When God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.

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  Rain, Shining, Ark

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• Do we have a guide to help us choose the right and avoid dangerous detours? I have tried to pattern my life after the Master. Whenever I have a difficult decision to make, I have looked at that picture and asked myself, "What would He do?" Then I try to do it. We can never go wrong when we choose to follow the Savior.

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  Agency, Decision, Trying

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• The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.

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  Father, Feelings, Divine Power

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• Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, He is with us. He has promised us that this will never change.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Never Change, Worst

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2016

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

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  Reality, Mortality, Traveler

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• Few see beyond the outward appearance
  And recognize the true worth of a human soul.
  When they do, miracles occur.

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  Miracle, Soul, Appearance

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• Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home.

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  Strong, Home, Dark

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• Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.

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  Lonely, Hard Times, Ill

  Speech in Memory of President Thomas S. Monson, www.lee.senate.gov. January 04, 2018.

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• Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.

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  Cities, World, Respecting Others

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• Tears came to my eyes when I read of a mere boy in one of our eastern cities who noticed a vagrant asleep on a sidewalk and who then went to his own room, retrieved his own pillow, and placed it beneath the head of that one whom he knew not. Perhaps there came from the precious past the welcome words: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' (Matt. 25:40).

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  Eye, Boys, Past

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• Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Light, Moral, Moral Courage

  "Examples of Righteousness". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2008.

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• You have a heritage honor it. You have posses a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it.

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  Temptation, Honor, Heritage

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• The road to anywhere is the road to nowhere, and the road to nowhere leads to dreams sacrificed, opportunities squandered, and a life unfulfilled. In our journey we will encounter forks and turnings in the road.

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  Dream, Opportunity, Journey

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• May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

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  Honesty, Integrity, People

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2015

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• The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

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  Safety, Storm, Temples

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