Top 224 Quotes & Sayings by Spencer W. Kimball - Page 4

No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children.... There is divinity in each new life.

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.

Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.

The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.

What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him?

Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends

Why is it that some young folks are almost overly conscientious in their school work, even to neglecting their Church responsibilities, when the spiritual should have priority in the study time of every person if preference must be given? However, there is time for fulfilling every need.

The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

Marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person.

Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.

It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions.

Sometimes our celebrations of notable occurrences seem to take on earthly color, and we do not fully realize the significance of the reason for the celebration. This is true of Christmas, when too often we celebrate the holiday rather than the deep significance of the birth and resurrection of the Lord. They must be unhappy indeed who ignore the godship of Christ, the sonship of the Master.

Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

Wherever women are true to their feminine natures and magnify their opportunities for loving service, they are learning to become more like God.

Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.

To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.

We need to help those we seek to serve, to know for themselves that God not only loves them, but He is ever mindful of them and of their needs.

Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding...And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.

We are greatly conscious of the fact that among the Lamanites - as well as among all peoples of other countries - we have a responsibility to see that the gospel touches their hearts and minds and that they understand it.

The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.

One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!

They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.

And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?

Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.

Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. All such deviations from normal, proper heterosexual relationships are not merely unnatural but wrong in the sight of God.

I personally regard all of the houses of the Lord as the work of Jehovah, initiated by him, built by him, designed by him, and dedicated to him and his program.

We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.

We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...

The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.

One of the most important and rewarding ways in which we can serve our fellowmen is by living and sharing the principles of the gospel. We need to help those whom we seek to serve to know for themselves that God not only loves them but he is ever mindful of them and their needs. To teach our neighbors of the divinity of the gospel is a command reiterated by the Lord: 'It becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor' (D&C 88:81).

It is through repentance that the Lord Jesus Christ can work his healing miracle, infusing us with strength when we are weak, health when we are sick, hope when we are downhearted, love when we feel empty, and understanding when we search for truth.

Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain.

The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like to say hello and I think they appreciate it. I notice their faces light up with a smile and I believe that if all the people in our great city...would do that, the whole world would begin to say it is the "Friendly City." You can do a tremendous thing here. We get so absorbed, we do not always speak to our friends. Speak to them, even strangers, you are not going to give offense.

Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may avoid pregnancies and comply with the strident voice demanding a reduction of children. It was never easy to bear and rear children, but easy things do not make for growth and development. But loud, blatant voices today shout 'fewer children' and offer the Pill, drugs, surgery, and even ugly abortion to accomplish that. Strange the proponents of depopulating the world seem never to have thought of continence!