Pray until you have established communication

Pray until you have established communication

Type of Quote: Quotes
Categories: Humility
Author: Spencer W. Kimball

Humility develops through prayer and study. Somebody asked me this morning, ‘How do you keep humble? Sometimes I am humble and sometimes I am unhumble. How do you keep humble?’ I think there is a formula that will never fail. First, you evaluate yourself. What am I? I am the circle. I am the hole in the doughnut. I would be nothing without the Lord. My breath, my brains, my hearing, my sight, my locomotion, my everything depends upon the Lord. That is the first step and then we pray, and pray often, and we will not get up from our knees until we have communicated. The line may be down; we may have let it fall to pieces, but I will not get up from my knees until I have established communication–if it is twenty minutes, if it is all night like Enos. If it takes all day long, you stay on your knees until your unhumbleness has dissipated, until you feel the humble spirit and realize, ‘I could die this minute if it were not for the Lord’s good grace. I am dependent upon him–totally dependent upon him,’ and then you read the scriptures. Could you read these scriptures . . . and not be lifted and inspired? Can you read about the prophets–David O. McKay–and not feel weak and small in comparison? Well, you can create humility, and humility has to be fed, too, in the same way, with the right kind of vitamins. And when you have success, you do not glory in it for you, you glory in it for the Lord (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p. 233).