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By choosing our path, we choose our destination.

By choosing our path, we choose our destination.

Thomas S. Monson
Path, Destination

What is most important almost always involves the people around us.

Thomas S. Monson
People, Important
Twitter post from Mar 27, 2015

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.

Thomas S. Monson
Encouragement, Small Acts, Telephones

Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character.

Thomas S. Monson
Character, Matter, Excuse

The world can be a challenging and difficult place in which to live. We are often surrounded by that which would drag us down. As you and I go to the holy houses of God, as we remember the covenants we make within, we will be more able to bear every trial and to overcome each temptation. In this sacred sanctuary we will find peace; we will be renewed and fortified.

Thomas S. Monson
House, Temptation, Challenges

Prayer is the passport to peace.

Thomas S. Monson
Prayer, Passports

As we seek Christ, as we find Him, as we follow Him, we shall have the Christmas spirit, not for one fleeting day each year, but as a companion always.

Thomas S. Monson
Years, Fleeting, Spirit

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
Abiding Faith, Anchors, Confusion

Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes.' Decisions do determine destiny. The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be.

Thomas S. Monson
Courage, Journey, Destiny

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

Thomas S. Monson
Self, Discipline, Battle
Twitter post from Jan 09, 2015

Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.

Thomas S. Monson
Challenges, Problem, Forget

Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.

Thomas S. Monson
Grateful, Blessing, Contemplating
Twitter post from Apr 14, 2016

Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart.

Thomas S. Monson
Heart, Sides, Heart To Heart
Twitter post from Oct 14, 2014

Kneel down to pray. Step up to serve. Reach out to rescue. Each is a vital page of God's blueprint to make a house a home and a home a heaven.

Thomas S. Monson
Home, House, Heaven

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier

Thomas S. Monson
Hope, Lovely, Doubt

We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Thomas S. Monson
Long, Doubt, Mind

Through tears and trials, through fears and sorrows, through the heartache and loneliness of losing loved ones, there is assurance that life is everlasting. Our Lord and Savior is the living witness that such is so.

Thomas S. Monson
Loneliness, Heart, Losing A Loved One

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Thomas S. Monson
Leadership, Mislead
Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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.

Thomas S. Monson
Strong, Dark, Night

Remember who you are and what God expects you to become.

Thomas S. Monson
Remember Who You Are, Remember, Who You Are
Twitter post from Apr 20, 2016

Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'

Thomas S. Monson
Family, Happiness, Happy

There are many out there who plead and pray for help. There are those who are discouraged, those who are beset by poor health and challenges of life which leave them in despair. I’ve always believed in the truth of the words, ‘God’s sweetest blessings always go by hands that serve him here below.’ Let us have ready hands, clean hands, and willing hands, that we may participate in providing what our Heavenly Father would have others receive from Him.

Thomas S. Monson
Father, Blessing, Hands

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

Thomas S. Monson
Life, Motivational, Happiness

By learning of Him, by believing in Him, by following Him, there is the capacity to become like Him.

Thomas S. Monson
Believe, Capacity, Following
Twitter post from Aug 25, 2015

My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.

Thomas S. Monson
Miracle, Tasks, Dear Sister

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