Thomas S. Monson Quotes

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!

Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks.

Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

Meditation is waiting on God.

As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.