Thomas S. Monson

You see your children growing. You look at your grandchildren, and you say to yourself, 'What if I weren't here? Have I done all I can to prepare them for their role in life?' You realize that you never quite do everything, but you want to do better than what you have done.

The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.

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

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

I remember that our deportment in Primary was not always as it should be. I had a lot of energy and found it difficult to sit patiently in a class.

Traveling is difficult when you go for long stretches at a time, but you always come back refreshed, feeling that you've accomplished something. I'm on my knees before I go anywhere in this world.

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

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.'

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.

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.

I testify that this work in which we're engaged is the Lord's work. I've felt His sustaining influence.

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

The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered.

When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, 'I want to do the best I know how to do every day.'

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

I know that God lives, my brothers and sisters. There is no question in my mind. I know that this is His work, and I know that the sweetest experience in all this life is to feel His promptings as He directs us in the furtherance of His work.

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

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.