Spencer W. Kimball Quotes About Profanity

Quotes about: Profanity

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

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Effort, Brain, Profanity

  "Thy Speech Reveals Thee" by Elder L. Tom Perry, August 1986.

• 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.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Quality, Language, Range

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

• We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." (2 Peter2:7.) We wonder why those of coarse and profane conversation, even if they refuse obedience to God's will, are so stunted mentally that they let their capacity to communicate grow more and more narrow. 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.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Wicked, Quality, Language

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