Daily Inspiration Quote by Thomas S. Monson

Monson’s line is a disciplined refusal to let modern life bully belief into pretending it’s a lab report. He separates mechanism from meaning: you can admit ignorance about the “processes of creation” without surrendering the “fact of it.” That distinction matters because it sidesteps the tired cage match between scripture and science. He’s not attacking inquiry; he’s drawing a boundary around what faith is for. In a culture that rewards certainty and punishes ambiguity, he models a different posture: epistemic humility paired with conviction.

The subtext is pastoral and strategic. As a Latter-day Saint leader speaking to members living amid scientific authority and secular prestige, Monson offers a way to stay intellectually honest without converting spirituality into pseudo-physics. “I acknowledge” is a public act of candor; it signals, You’re allowed to not have an answer. “I accept” is the turn: belief is framed as a choice, not a deduction. The phrase “fact of it” quietly reclassifies creation as ontological bedrock rather than contested theory, a move that stabilizes identity and moral order without litigating timelines, methods, or Darwin.

Rhetorically, it works because it lowers the temperature. Instead of performing certainty about cosmology, Monson centers the lived function of faith: anchoring gratitude, accountability, and purpose. The line also protects communal cohesion; it keeps members from feeling they must pick a team between Sunday and Monday. In eight spare clauses, he offers a truce that preserves reverence while making room for unanswered questions.