J. Golden Kimball Quotes

If I have ever been vain—and no doubt I have been—I think men are really more vain than women, and that is a hard blow!

Remember to smile and to practice what you preach. It is better to live up to and preach a few things than to cram your mind with great volumes of goodness and make none of them work. Why not pick out a few good things and try them out?

When I look over this body of men, I do not discover that you are very distinguished in appearance. Why, you are no better looking than I am, and I look pretty bad.

Construction is very difficult, destruction is easy.

I wonder sometimes when I look into the faces of some of these overworked people, if there is a sort of a sleeping potion taken just prior to going to Church, so they can rest in peace and not feel disturbed, but relax and forget they are alive.

I claim not to raise the dead, but I can arouse the Saints who come to meetings to sleep and rest, but often am forced to use unseemly language to put it over.

"Rock-a-bye baby in the tree top" won't work out our problems. There is no use crying "All is well in Zion," because it is not true.

Wives and husbands are mostly foolish. A little love, respect, patience and to give and take, and occasionally a kiss and a cuddle, would make out of a hades a heaven.

It is considered a good thing to look wise, especially when not over burdened with information.

We are one and all God's children. He created us and he never created a failure, and he created you.

I am ready to confess that I am keyed up to a pretty high tension, and the only thing I am afraid of is that I will say just what I think, which would be unwise, no doubt.

I am not advocating humor at a church gathering, or at a funeral, but I do believe Mormon Elders ought to rise to the occasion either by inspiration or the use of good common sense. Being your own dear self and acting or speaking natural is at least refreshing if not entertaining.

I know what I want, and I begin to find out what it will cost.

Any man who tries to do the right thing and continues to try, is not a failure in the sight of God.

Almost everything now a days is standardized, staked out, fenced in, blue printed and so perfectly all planned and laid out that the Lord couldn’t get in a word edge-ways.