"Revelations will probably never come unless they are desired. I think few people receive revelations while lounging on the couch or while playing cards or while relaxing. I believe most revelations would come when a man is on his tip toes, reaching as high as he can for something which he knows he needs, and then there bursts upon him the answer to his problems."
(When asked about overturning the priesthood ban): "I don’t know that I should be the one doing this, but if I don’t my successor won’t."
Spencer W. Kimball
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"I do not worry about members of the Church being unresponsive when they learn of the needy as much as I worry about our being unaware of such needs. … Please, priesthood leaders, do not get so busy trying to manage Church programs that you forget about basic duties in what the Apostle James described as ‘pure religion, undefiled’ (James 1:27)."
Spencer W. Kimball. at a seminar for Regional Representatives in 1979
Spencer W. Kimball. at a seminar for Regional Representatives in 1979
"Spencer later seemed to wish he had adopted a gentler tone. In 1977 he said to Lyle Ward, his neighbor, 'Sometimes I think I might have been a little too strong about some of the things I wrote in this book'. . . . When he heard of others who read the book and became discouraged by a standard that seemed to them unattainable, he wished he had communicated more understanding and encouragement."
Edward Kimball in Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball pp. 79-80
Edward Kimball in Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball pp. 79-80
"Day after day, and especially on Saturdays and Sundays when there were no organizations [sessions] in the temple, I went there when I could be alone. I was very humble . . . I was searching for this . . . I wanted to be sure. . . . We had this special prayer circle, then I knew that the time had come. I had a great deal to fight, of course, myself largely, because I had grown up with this thought that Negroes should not have the priesthood and I was prepared to go all the rest of my life till my death and fight for it and defend it as it was. But this revelation and assurance came to me so clearly that there was no question about it."
Spencer W. Kimball
Source uncertain. Possibly: Deseret News, Church Section, January 6, 1979, page 4
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