Spencer W. Kimball Quotes

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.

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

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

We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.

Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.

We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord's ways from our own narrow view.

Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.

The nation is built upon the foundation of its homes and the home upon its families.

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.

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.

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

Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.

To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.

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

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.

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.

Strength and struggle travel together.

There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.

If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy.

If you have not done so yet, decide to decide.

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

Make certain decisions only once.

The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment

Sin comes when communication lines are down - it always does, sooner or later.

In the kingdom, the greater our responsibilities, the greater is our need to see ourselves as servants.

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

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

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

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

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.

He who cannot learn by others' mistakes is stupid. He who cannot learn by his own errors is a fool.

There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face.

Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

Home: The place to save society.

Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.

Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives.

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?

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.

Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.

The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us.