American - Clergyman | August 21, 1927 - January 2, 2018
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
Thomas S. Monson
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The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.
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The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
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Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
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Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
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My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.
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The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.
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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.
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There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.
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We tend to become like those whom we admire.
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I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.
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In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.
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