Quote

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.

Spencer W. Kimball

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Spencer W. Kimball
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: March 28
Died: 1985
Died: November 5
Businessperson
Prophet
Salt Lake City
Utah
Life
Preparedness
Spectacular
Pursued
Properly
Sudden
Survival
Program
Way

More quotes by Spencer W. Kimball

Image
To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep his commandments.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
The nation is built upon the foundation of its homes and the home upon its families.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
No true Latter-Day Saint, while physically or emotionally able will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family's well-being to someone else. So long as he can, under the inspiration of the Lord and with his own labors, he will supply himself and his family with the spiritual and temporal necessities of life.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Man must live, not only exist he must do, not merely be he must grow, not just vegetate.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects...It affects not only the two people involved, but also their families and particularly their children and their children's children down through the many generations
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
What relief! What comfort! What joy! Those laden with transgressions and sorrows and sin may be forgiven and cleansed and purified if they will return to their Lord, learn of him, and keep his commandments
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
Spencer W. Kimball