Golden Kimball Quotes

#1. No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

J. Golden Kimball

#2. I believe if I had a house in hell and a house in St. George, I'd rent out the one in St. George and live in hell. I really would.

J. Golden Kimball

#3. What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can't claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble, unless you keep him under.

J. Golden Kimball

#4. Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. A sermon should be like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep your attention.

J. Golden Kimball

#6. Cut me off from the Church? They can't do that! I repent do damn fast!

J. Golden Kimball

#7. Some people say a person receives a position in this church through revelation, and others say they get it through inspiration, but I say they get it through relation. If I hadn't been related to Heber C. Kimball I wouldn't have been a damn thing in this church.

J. Golden Kimball

#8. It's pretty simple, really: I love the X-Men. They were my favorite heroes when I was a kid. My dad and I collected X-Men comics together, and I know it would have made him proud to see me writing 'Uncanny X-Men.'

Cullen Bunn

#9. We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

J. Golden Kimball

#10. I will, then, always love sin and the world until I truly sense that Christ is better.

Michael Reeves

#11. An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.

J. Golden Kimball

#12. Well, I've almost got the problem licked. I'm eighty now, and in a few more years, I think I'll have it completely under control. (referring to his love of coffee)

J. Golden Kimball

#13. honor begins in the heart and works its way out until it is expressed through our actions.

Lisa Bevere

#14. A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time ... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

Darren Shan

#15. If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

J. Golden Kimball

#16. I don't know about this here eternal marriage business. But it seems to me that if you can't live with the sons-of-bitches on earth the Lord won't force you to remain with them in heaven.

J. Golden Kimball

#17. I won't go to Hell for swearing because I repent too damn fast!

J. Golden Kimball

#18. I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.

J. Golden Kimball

#19. I had been born in order to fill
the great need I had of myself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#20. I may not always walk the straight and narrow, but I sure in hell try to cross it as often as I can.

J. Golden Kimball

#21. The thing with thoughts is that they die, like everything else. But almost everything else leaves a trace behind, even if it's a tiny carcass, some proof that it existed. Unless thoughts are spoken or written or sung or acted upon, there's no evidence that they were ever there.

Adi Alsaid

#22. Love needs no reason material, external. But love lives strongly within reason, internal.

Dew Platt