Top 577 Quotes & Sayings by Gordon B. Hinckley - Page 2

I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.

Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day.

Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.

You will find peace and happiness if you will live the gospel.

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.

I cannot understand why any young man - or young woman, for that matter - would wish to undergo the painful process of disfiguring the skin with various multicolored representations of people, animals, and various symbols.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.

The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.

We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.

It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.

Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.

With small means the Lord accomplishes His marvelous work.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

Opportunities for sharing the gospel are everywhere.

It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

Fear comes not from God but from the evil one.

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

My children are now all grown. Some are in their 60s. But when they call and I answer the phone, they say, 'How are you?' And before I can answer, they ask, 'Is Mother there?'

I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.

The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.

Truth will prevail.

The world is starved for spiritual food.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Every convert is a son or daughter of God.

You don't need coffee. Nobody needs coffee. You can get along without it.

I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.

I promise you that the time will come, if you have tattoos, that you will regret your actions. They cannot be washed off. They are permanent. Only by an expensive and painful process can they be removed. If you are tattooed, then probably for the remainder of your life you will carry it with you.

We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

My heart goes out to a missionary who does not receive regular mail from home. Generally, a letter once a week is a good rule. But on the other hand, too much mail can be damaging to a missionary's morale.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions. Baptism is a necessary ordinance.

Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.

There is nothing we could do of greater importance than to have fortified in our individual lives an unshakable conviction that Jesus is the Christ, the living Son of the living God.

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.

The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

I submit that in the few minutes that Joseph Smith was with the Father and the Son, he learned more of the nature of God the Eternal Father and the risen Lord than all the learned minds in all their discussions through all centuries of time.

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us.

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

We cannot be unclean and expect the help of the Almighty.