Thomas S. Monson Quotes

No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves

Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?

My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.

Souls are not saved in bundles.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

I guess, in a very real sense, I'm a Gnostic. I had been looking all my life for some great mystery... I think somewhere deep in my mind is the notion that if I could learn just the right thing, I would be saved.

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely choose - to keep His commandments and come unto His Beloved Son. They do not compel us. They cannot, for that would interfere with the plan of happiness. And so there is in us a God-given desire to be responsible for our own choices.

It is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears His name. He stands at its head and directs it through His chosen prophets.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.

I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins - now, today, if we will only respond to the challenge and let him.

Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions

I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

Every man must get to Heaven his own way.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.

Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.