170 Quotes by Spencer W. Kimball

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

Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals.

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

Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.

Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord’s name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.

Above all, I declare that Jesus Christ is the center of our faith; I testify to you that he lives. He leads his Church today; he hears our prayers when we humbly, earnestly, unceasingly seek to know his will, making this, too, a day of miracles and of revelation.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the sun or moon; whether he kneels before wood and stone images, or prays in secret to his Heavenly Father, he is satisfying an inborn urge.

We are on the whole an idolatrous people.