170 Quotes by Spencer W. Kimball

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

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?

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

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.

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.

It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That’s our motto.

Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.

No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors.