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Spencer W. Kimball

Spencer Woolley Kimball (March 28, 1895 – November 5, 1985) was an American business, civic, and religious leader, and was the 12th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The grandson of early Latter-day Saint apostle Heber C. Kimball, Kimball was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He spent most of his early life in Thatcher, Arizona, where his father, Andrew Kimball, farmed and served as the area's stake president. He served an LDS mission from 1914 to 1916, then worked for various banks in Arizona's Gila Valley as a clerk and bank teller. Kimball later co-founded a business, selling bonds and insurance that, after weathering the Great Depression, became highly successful. Kimball served as a stake president in his hometown from 1938 until 1943, when he was called to serve as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

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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?

Girl, Home, Mother, Tell, Ten

You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.

Uplifting, Daughter, Mother, Precious, Women, God

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

Celebrate, Righteous, Way, Ways

We are on the whole an idolatrous people.

Idolatrous, Idols, People, Whole

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.

Believe, Friends, Friendship, Thinking, Tremendous, Whole

Jesus perfected his life and became our Christ. Priceless blood of a god was shed, and he became our Savior; his perfected life was given, and he became our Redeemer; his atonement for us made possible our return to our Heavenly Father, and yet how thoughtless, how unappreciative are most beneficiaries! Ingratitude is a sin of the ages.

Became, Blood, Father, Jesus, Possible, Thoughtless

It is not easy to be at peace in today’s troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. … It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God.

Attitude, Acquisition, World, Personal, Sins, Forgiveness

Sometimes our celebrations of notable occurrences seem to take on earthly color, and we do not fully realize the significance of the reason for the celebration. This is true of Christmas, when too often we celebrate the holiday rather than the deep significance of the birth and resurrection of the Lord. They must be unhappy indeed who ignore the godship of Christ, the sonship of the Master.

Christ, Color, Deep, Holiday, Unhappy

One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself.

Climbing, Helping, Hill, Hills, Top

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

Day, Essential, Essentials, Mans, Progress, Repentance

Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.

Greatest, Music, Sermons, Singing, Song

As a vital link in the conversion process, we should bear our testimonies that the gospel is true; our testimonies may well be the spark that ignites the conversion process. Consequently, we have a double responsibility: we must testify of the things we know, feel, and have felt, and we must live so the Holy Ghost can be with us and convey our words in power to the heart of the investigator.

Heart, Holy, Live, Process, Responsibility, Sparks

There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love

Marriage, Mean, Men, Nothing, Women, Expression

Too often we take blessings for granted, like the sun, the air, health, and opportunity. Or we accept favors, honors, and privileges day after day as did the lepers their newfound health, without a word of thanks. We would thank the person who gives us a seat in the bus, the person who offers a ride, the friend who picks up the check after dinner, the person who does the baby-sitting, or the boy who cuts our lawn, but do we express gratitude to Him who gives us all?

Baby, Cutting, Day, Dinner, Gratitude, Honors

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

Marriage, Children, Two, Affects, Particularly

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.

Choices, Confronted, Discipline, Self, Temptation

Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

Dominion, Men, Serve, Visibility, Women

Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of one’s life. True greatness is not always tied to the scope of our tasks, but to the quality of how we carry out our tasks whatever they are. In that attitude, let us give our time, ourselves, and our talents to the things that really matter now, things which will still matter a thousand years from now.

Attitude, Greatness, Years, Ones, Let

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.

Spiritual, Religious, Inspiration, Burden, Physically

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

Gone, Management, Time, Wise

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