110+ Spencer W. Kimball Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Spencer W. Kimball quotes and sayings.

Top 10 Spencer W. Kimball Quotes

1. Humility is royalty without a crown.
2. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.
3. Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life.
4. Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.
5. The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different
6. Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals
7. I am not afraid of death. What I am afraid of is that I will meet the Saviour and He will say, 'You could have done better'
8. Your faith will perform miracles, especially when you get your hands and feet involved.
9. Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
10. Man must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.

Spencer W. Kimball Short Quotes

• The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.
• Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.
• Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
• Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.
• We must lengthen our stride and must do it now because we over ate and feel fat.
• My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.
• True repentance does not permit repetition.
• The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
• One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself.
• The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

Spencer W. Kimball Famous Quotes And Sayings

In my office...I have a little sign and it says, 'Do it!' I suppose if I have learned anything in life, it is that we are to keep moving, keep trying-as long as we breathe! If we do, we will be surprised at how much more can still be done. — Spencer W. Kimball

Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich. — Spencer W. Kimball

Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we! — Spencer W. Kimball

To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling... She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home--which is society's basic and most noble institution. — Spencer W. Kimball

To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens. — Spencer W. Kimball

We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to love and to serve. It will do us little good to speak of the general brotherhood of mankind if we cannot regard those who are all around us as our brothers and sisters. — Spencer W. Kimball

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve others. We become more substantive as we serve others—indeed, it is easier to “find” ourselves because there is so much more of us to find! — Spencer W. Kimball

My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep his commandments. — Spencer W. Kimball

I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves — Spencer W. Kimball

Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball

Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price. — Spencer W. Kimball

No true Latter-Day Saint, while physically or emotionally able will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family's well-being to someone else. So long as he can, under the inspiration of the Lord and with his own labors, he will supply himself and his family with the spiritual and temporal necessities of life. — Spencer W. Kimball

What relief! What comfort! What joy! Those laden with transgressions and sorrows and sin may be forgiven and cleansed and purified if they will return to their Lord, learn of him, and keep his commandments — Spencer W. Kimball

Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant. — Spencer W. Kimball

Let us hold fast to the iron rod. The Savior urged us to put our hand to the plow without looking back. In that spirit we are being asked to have humility and a deep and abiding faith in the Lord and to move forward-trusting in him, refusing to be diverted from our course, either by the ways of the world or the praise of the world. — Spencer W. Kimball

Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship. — Spencer W. Kimball

I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful. — Spencer W. Kimball

Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate. — Spencer W. Kimball

A true Latter–day Saint family is a haven against the storms and struggles of life. — Spencer W. Kimball

How long has it been since you took your children, whatever their size, in your arms and told them that you love them and are glad that they can be yours forever? — Spencer W. Kimball

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery. — Spencer W. Kimball

You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there; you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you. — Spencer W. Kimball

... it [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual masturbation - practiced with another person of the same sex - and thence into total homosexuality. — Spencer W. Kimball

One of Satan's sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims. — Spencer W. Kimball

Jesus perfected his life and became our Christ. Priceless blood of a god was shed, and he became our Savior; his perfected life was given, and he became our Redeemer; his atonement for us made possible our return to our Heavenly Father, and yet how thoughtless, how unappreciative are most beneficiaries! Ingratitude is a sin of the ages. — Spencer W. Kimball

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. — Spencer W. Kimball

I say to everyone within the sound of my voice, 'Do not fail the Lord'. We must accept the truth that the gospel principles are not on trial but that we are. — Spencer W. Kimball

A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to get our ultimate objectives clearly in mind so that we do not become distracted at each fork in the road by the irrelevant questions: Which is the easier or more pleasant way? Or, Which way are others going? — Spencer W. Kimball

One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. — Spencer W. Kimball

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. — Spencer W. Kimball

Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you. — Spencer W. Kimball

One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history! — Spencer W. Kimball

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

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal. — Spencer W. Kimball

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises. — Spencer W. Kimball

Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile — Spencer W. Kimball

We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service. — Spencer W. Kimball

You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother. — Spencer W. Kimball

It is important for us also to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong together eternally, that whatever changes outside our home, there are fundamental aspects of our relationship which will never change. — Spencer W. Kimball

Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation. — Spencer W. Kimball

So much depends upon our willingness to make up our minds, collectively and individually, that present levels of performance are not acceptable, either to ourselves or to the Lord. In saying that, I am not calling for flashy, temporary differences in our performance levels, but a quiet resolve to do a better job, to lengthen our stride. — Spencer W. Kimball

Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life. — Spencer W. Kimball

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes. — Spencer W. Kimball

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract. — Spencer W. Kimball

We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year's supply. You don't argue why it cannot be done; you just plan to organize and get it done. — Spencer W. Kimball

It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds! — Spencer W. Kimball

It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so. — Spencer W. Kimball

No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai. — Spencer W. Kimball

I believe that the telephone and telegraph and other such conveniences were permitted by the Lord to be developed for the express purpose of building the kingdom. Others may use them for business, professional or other purposes, but basically they are to build the kingdom. — Spencer W. Kimball

Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of remembrance are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in their daily lives. Journals are a way of counting our blessings and of leaving an inventory of these blessings for our posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball

When you look in the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is? It could be remember.Because all of you have made covenants-you know what to do and you know how to do it-our greatest need is to remember. — Spencer W. Kimball

There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love — Spencer W. Kimball

We learn to do by doing. — Spencer W. Kimball

By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed. — Spencer W. Kimball

When a defiled man is born again, his habits are changed, his thoughts cleansed, his attitudes regenerated and elevated, his activities put in total order, and everything about him that was dirty, degenerate or reprobate is washed and made clean. — Spencer W. Kimball

It is not easy to be at peace in today’s troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. … It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God. — Spencer W. Kimball

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity! — Spencer W. Kimball

One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan and propounded by man is that man is saved alone by the grace of God; that belief in Jesus Christ alone is all that is needed for salvation — Spencer W. Kimball

Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas. Unwavering faith can protect against deluge, terminate droughts, heal the sick, and bring heavenly manifestations. Indomitable faith can help us live the commandments and thereby bring blessings unnumbered with peace, perfection, and exaltation in the kingdom of God. — Spencer W. Kimball

In the kingdom, the greater our responsibilities, the greater is our need to see ourselves as servants. — Spencer W. Kimball

What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball

We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without basic family life is without foundation and will disintegrate into nothingness. — Spencer W. Kimball

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. — Spencer W. Kimball

Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song. — Spencer W. Kimball

Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one. — Spencer W. Kimball

Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness. — Spencer W. Kimball

Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use. — Spencer W. Kimball

God does notice us, and He watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs. — Spencer W. Kimball

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. It is embarrassing and unpleasant as a subject for discussion but because of its prevalence, the need to warn the uninitiated, and the desire to help those who may already be involved in it, it is discussed in this chapter. — Spencer W. Kimball

Love people, not things; use things, not people. — Spencer W. Kimball

How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves. — Spencer W. Kimball

A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than intellect . . . . We are men of God first, men of letters second, men of science third, and noted men fourth, men of rectitude rather than academic competence. . . . Our academic training must be as impeccable as our lives. — Spencer W. Kimball

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

It would be a fine thing if ... parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple so [their children] from the time [they are] infant[s] could look at the picture every day [until] it becomes a part of [their lives]. When [they reach] the age that [they need] to make [the] very important decision [concerning going to the temple], it will have already been made. — Spencer W. Kimball

There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world. — Spencer W. Kimball

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it. — Spencer W. Kimball

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. — Spencer W. Kimball

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. — Spencer W. Kimball

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin. — Spencer W. Kimball

We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health may be nurtured. Our schooling must not only teach us how to bridge the Niagara River gorge, or the Golden Gate, but must teach us how to bridge the deep gaps of misunderstanding and hate and discord in the world. — Spencer W. Kimball

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. — Spencer W. Kimball

If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy. — Spencer W. Kimball

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. — Spencer W. Kimball

If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions. — Spencer W. Kimball

Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish. These real heroines have true humility, which places a higher value on integrity than on visibility. Remember, it is as wrong to do things just to be seen of women as it is to do things to be seen of men. Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion. — Spencer W. Kimball

We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome. — Spencer W. Kimball

As a vital link in the conversion process, we should bear our testimonies that the gospel is true; our testimonies may well be the spark that ignites the conversion process. Consequently, we have a double responsibility: we must testify of the things we know, feel, and have felt, and we must live so the Holy Ghost can be with us and convey our words in power to the heart of the investigator. — Spencer W. Kimball

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves. — Spencer W. Kimball

Only when you lift a burden, God will lift your burden. Divine paradox this! The man who staggers and falls because his burden is too great can lighten that burden by taking on the weight of another's burden. You get by giving, but your part of giving must be given first. — Spencer W. Kimball

God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs. — Spencer W. Kimball