To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it. — Spencer W. Kimball Bears Copy Share Image
Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls. — Spencer W. Kimball Generosity Copy Share Image
Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly. — Spencer W. Kimball Brain Copy Share Image
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led. — Spencer W. Kimball Leader Copy Share Image
Man must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
A true Latter–day Saint family is a haven against the storms and struggles of life. — Spencer W. Kimball Family Copy Share Image
The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power. — Spencer W. Kimball Adventure Copy Share Image
“We must eliminate the individual tendency to selfishness that snares the soul, shrinks the heart, and darkens the mind.” — Spencer W. Kimball Psychology Copy Share Image
There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction. — Spencer W. Kimball Commandments Copy Share Image
We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them,… — Spencer W. Kimball Children Copy Share Image
Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise… — Spencer W. Kimball Exercise Copy Share Image
There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of… — Spencer W. Kimball Creation Copy Share Image
Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
It is not easy to be at peace in today’s troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. … It can be… — Spencer W. Kimball Acquisition Copy Share Image
My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with… — Spencer W. Kimball Commandments Copy Share Image
In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but… — Spencer W. Kimball Chance Copy Share Image
“Modern scientific findings harmonize with revelation through the ages. No conflict exists between the gospel and any truth … All true principles… — Spencer W. Kimball Lds Copy Share Image
Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted… — Spencer W. Kimball Choices Copy Share Image
Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. We could refer to all the components of… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The burning bushes, the smoking mountains, . . . the Cumorahs, and the Kirtlands were realities; but they were the exceptions. .… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than… — Spencer W. Kimball Academic Copy Share Image
Masturbation is not physically necessary. There is already a way by which the male system relieves excessive spermatic fluid quite regularly through… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare had Polonius truly say, "The apparel oft proclaims the man." (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 3). We are affected by our own… — Spencer W. Kimball Brothers and sisters Copy Share Image
“The holy prophets have not only refused to follow erroneous human trends, but have pointed out these errors. No wonder the response… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We don't go to Sabbath meetings to be entertained or even solely to be instructed. We go to worship the Lord. It… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“In the Church, we can give expression to every ability, every righteous desire, every thoughtful impulse. Whether a volunteer, father, home teacher,… — Spencer W. Kimball Sacrifice Copy Share Image
“One good but mistaken man I know claimed he could get more out of a good book on Sunday than he could… — Spencer W. Kimball Attending church Copy Share Image
Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness. — Spencer W. Kimball Forgiveness Copy Share Image
We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen. — Spencer W. Kimball Music Copy Share Image
Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character. — Spencer W. Kimball Character Copy Share Image
One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself. — Spencer W. Kimball Climbing Copy Share Image
The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends — Spencer W. Kimball Few friends Copy Share Image
