Quote

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

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
Avoid
Best
Better
Way
Prevention
Repentance
Resist
Temptation

More quotes by Spencer W. Kimball

Image
Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
We learn to do by doing.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only decide some things once.
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
Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.
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
Image
In my office...I have a little sign and it says, 'Do it!' I suppose if I have learned anything in life, it is that we are to keep moving, keep trying-as long as we breathe! If we do, we will be surprised at how much more can still be done.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Make certain decisions only once.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
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
My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.
Spencer W. Kimball
Image
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.
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