Spencer W. Kimball
If I immerse myself in the scriptures...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.Collection: Heart
Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friendsCollection: Friendship
I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like to say hello and I think they appreciate it. I notice their faces light up with a smile and I believe that if all the people in our great city...would do that, the whole world would begin to say it is the "Friendly City." You can do a tremendous thing here. We get so absorbed, we do not always speak to our friends. Speak to them, even strangers, you are not going to give offense.Collection: Friendship
Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.Collection: Men
To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.Collection: Errors
Sin is the result of deep and unmet needs.Collection: Needs
Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding...And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.Collection: Gratitude
Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may avoid pregnancies and comply with the strident voice demanding a reduction of children. It was never easy to bear and rear children, but easy things do not make for growth and development. But loud, blatant voices today shout 'fewer children' and offer the Pill, drugs, surgery, and even ugly abortion to accomplish that. Strange the proponents of depopulating the world seem never to have thought of continence!Collection: Husband
Brethren, 225,000 of you are here tonight. I suppose 225,000 of you may become gods. There seems to be plenty of space out there in the universe. And the Lord has proved that he knows how to do it. I think he could make, or probably have us help make, worlds for all of us, for every one of us 225,000.Collection: Thinking
Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.Collection: Sweet
Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Religious
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?Collection: Exercise
Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older? Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?Collection: Girl
Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.Collection: Character
People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.Collection: Honesty
Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.Collection: Education
We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens.Collection: Home
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?Collection: Mother
Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. We could refer to all the components of personal and family preparedness, not in relation to holocaust or disaster, but in cultivating a life-style that is on a day-to-day basis its own reward.Collection: Holocaust
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.Collection: Voice
Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.Collection: Happiness
When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the antithesis of humility.Collection: Humility