TPC: Spencer W. Kimball - We Should Be a Reverent People
Posted on August 5, 2007
Filed Under Teachings of Presidents of the Church
In 1955 President David O. McKay dedicated the first temple in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple. Elder Spencer W. Kimball, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, was scheduled to speak at the afternoon session on the first day of the dedication. He spent an hour alone in the temple that day “preparing mind and heart for the afternoon, unhurried, quiet, respectful and reverential.”1 During his address he said: “As I awakened this morning and began to attain consciousness after the night, I saw the dawn advancing, and my thought first came to the holy temple which was to be dedicated this day. I thought, ‘No food today. Shoes must be shined, clothes pressed, and I must have a clean mind.’ All the way to Zollikofen I desired to say no word, and when I came into this room and sat by [President McKay] and all he said was in sacred whispers, I knew then that I had been feeling some of the feeling he has felt. ‘Holiness to the Lord, Holiness becometh the Saints of the Lord.’ “2
TPC: Spencer W. Kimball - We Should Be a Reverent People
TPC: Spencer W. Kimball - “Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me”
Posted on July 8, 2007
Filed Under Teachings of Presidents of the Church
President Spencer W. Kimball exhorted Latter-day Saints to put the Lord first in their lives and not set their hearts on the things of the world. He taught that putting such things as material possessions, business, recreation, and prestige ahead of the Lord is to worship false gods. He emphasized that false gods or idols include “everything which entices a person away from duty, loyalty, and love for and service to God.”1
TPC: Spencer W. Kimball - “Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me”
TPC: Spencer W. Kimball - Obedience Born of Faith in God
Posted on July 1, 2007
Filed Under Teachings of Presidents of the Church
In March 1972, when Spencer W. Kimball was Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, he was experiencing serious heart problems. At the time, one of his doctors was Russell M. Nelson, who would later become a member of the Quorum of the Twelve. Elder Nelson recounted:
TPC: Spencer W. Kimball - Obedience Born of Faith in God