There are lives to brighten. There are hearts to touch. There are souls to save.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of positively impacting others through acts of kindness and compassion.
Thomas S. Monson's quote reminds us that our purpose in life often involves uplifting and supporting those around us. By brightening lives, touching hearts, and saving souls, we engage in acts of love and service that contribute to a more compassionate and humane world. It calls us to recognize our potential to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others through our actions.
In practice
During a speech at a charity event to inspire volunteers.
Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.
We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.
Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.
No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any way to serve others ever forgets or regrets the experience of helping provide for those in need.
My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.
When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.
Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.
When kids want a picture or autograph, you reflect later on and realize you did something good. Then you see them come back five years later, they're all grown up, have their own lives and they tell you how much you inspired them. You're like, 'Whoa.'
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.
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