Spencer W. Kimball Quotes

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

You can't worship the image or the Crucifix itself. You have to worship God.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

The confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust be right, then is your god also true; and, on the other hand, if your trust be false and wrong, then you have not the true God; for these two belong together faith and God. That now, I say, upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god.

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

The question isn't 'Do we worship?' The question is 'Who (or what) do we worship?'

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

The country will never vote in favour of those who do not acknowledge Lord Ram and Lord Krishna.

Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God, and we thank You oh sweet, sweet Lord of hosts for the smörgåsbord You have so aptly laid at our table this day, and each day, by day, day by day, by day oh dear Lord three things we pray to love Thee more dearly, to see Thee more clearly, to follow Thee more nearly, day, by day, by day. Amen.

If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

The love religion is all that is written here.

Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

The true religion of Jesus Christ our Saviour is that which penetrates, and which receives all the warmth of the heart, and all the elevation of the soul, and all the energies of the understanding, and all the strength of the will.