Spencer W. Kimball
You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.Collection: Uplifting
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.Collection: Heart
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 loveCollection: Marriage
To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.Collection: Generosity
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Attitude
Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!Collection: Procrastination
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.Collection: Party
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.Collection: House
The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.Collection: Way
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.Collection: Quality
Marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person.Collection: Marriage
We need to help those we seek to serve, to know for themselves that God not only loves them, but He is ever mindful of them and of their needs.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Country
Why is it that some young folks are almost overly conscientious in their school work, even to neglecting their Church responsibilities, when the spiritual should have priority in the study time of every person if preference must be given? However, there is time for fulfilling every need.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Past
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. All such deviations from normal, proper heterosexual relationships are not merely unnatural but wrong in the sight of God.Collection: Past
If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.Collection: Humble
We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...Collection: Idols
No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children.... There is divinity in each new life.Collection: Daughter
Sometimes our celebrations of notable occurrences seem to take on earthly color, and we do not fully realize the significance of the reason for the celebration. This is true of Christmas, when too often we celebrate the holiday rather than the deep significance of the birth and resurrection of the Lord. They must be unhappy indeed who ignore the godship of Christ, the sonship of the Master.Collection: Holiday
To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.Collection: Bears
Wherever women are true to their feminine natures and magnify their opportunities for loving service, they are learning to become more like God.Collection: Uplifting
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.Collection: Teaching
The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.Collection: Consideration
The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.Collection: Forgiveness
And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?Collection: Father
Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.Collection: Fate
Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.Collection: Keys
Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.Collection: Beautiful
Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.Collection: Ignorance
Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.Collection: Men
The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are differentCollection: Marriage
Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.Collection: Marriage
They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.Collection: Horse
Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.Collection: Success
Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.Collection: Family
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.Collection: Leadership
There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.Collection: Progress
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.Collection: Names
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.Collection: Jesus
Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain.Collection: Goal
One of the most important and rewarding ways in which we can serve our fellowmen is by living and sharing the principles of the gospel. We need to help those whom we seek to serve to know for themselves that God not only loves them but he is ever mindful of them and their needs. To teach our neighbors of the divinity of the gospel is a command reiterated by the Lord: 'It becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor' (D&C 88:81).Collection: Men
Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Family
One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!Collection: Way
I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.Collection: Happy
We learn to do by doing.Collection: Inspirational