Spencer W. Kimball Quotes - Page 9

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• Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends

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  Friendship, Few Friends

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

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• 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.

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  Friendship, Believe, Thinking

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• Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

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  Fate, Men, Wings

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

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• Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

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  Keys, Generosity, Goal

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Home, Hands

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• Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

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  Ignorance, Prejudice, Racial Prejudice

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

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• Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

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  Men, Repentance, Transformed

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• The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

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  Marriage, Different, Hazards

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

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• Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.

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  Marriage, Decision, Reaching

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• 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.

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  Happy, New Year, Believe

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• The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

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  Forgiveness, Essence, Miracle

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

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• 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.

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  Horse, Hobbies, Faults

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

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• Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.

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  Success, Goal, Progress

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• There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

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  Progress, Essentials, Repentance

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• 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.

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  Names, Perfect, Church

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Healing, Sick

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

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• Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain.

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  Goal, Made, Should

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• 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).

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  Men, Important, Principles

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• Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

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  Men, Generosity, Goal

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• The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

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  Leadership, Proximity, True Leader

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

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• 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.

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  Family, Children, Organization

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

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

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  Way, Celebrate, Righteous

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

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  Family, Teaching, Home

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• 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?

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  Father, Golf, Winning

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