J. Golden Kimball Quotes

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?

Construction is very difficult, destruction is easy.

I feel more like saying, this morning, "Cheer up, the worst is to come."

I am very glad that I am not so old as I feel.

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!

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

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 inclined to believe that we do not hear straight, talk straight, see straight and think straight. We preach too long, talk too much and kill the very truth we want to put over.

I think of what Elbert Hubbard said. It struck me rather strangely the other day. He said: "If you are going to reform the world you had better begin with yourself, and there will be one rogue less in the world." Of course, I did not want to apply that to myself, but I would not object to applying it to you.

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

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.

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

I do not know just where I am going, but I know mighty well I am on my way.

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.