Top 300 Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

152. “Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

153. “Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.”

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154. “Don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.”

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

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156. “Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we’ll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

157. “Remember that whatever you do or wherever you are, you are never alone.”

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158. “Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.”

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159. “The family is a creation of God. The way to strengthen the nation is to strengthen the homes of the people.”

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160. “Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.”

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161. “It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.”

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162. “Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.”

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163. “The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.”

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164. “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.”

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165. “The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.”

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166. “Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.”

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167. “We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.”

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168. “Believe in the sacred word of God, the Holy Bible, with its treasury of inspiration and sacred truth; in the Book of Mormon as a testimony of the living Christ. Believe in the Church as the organization which the God of Heaven established for the blessing of His sons and daughters of all generations of time.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

169. “God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

170. “Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.”

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171. “Don’t make the kinds of mistakes that will bring regret.”

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172. “There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

173. “Strength to do battle begins with enlisting the strength of God.”

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174. “You don’t need coffee. Nobody needs coffee. You can get along without it.”

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175. “There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.”

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176. “When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.”

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177. “While there may be thorns and disappointments, while there may be heartache, even heartbreak, there can be peace and comfort and strength from the Lord for those who follow Him.”

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178. “When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.”

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179. “No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.”

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180. “We are winning the war against Satan, and the future has never looked brighter.”

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181. “Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.”

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182. “What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

183. “It isn’t as bad as you think it is. It all works out. Don’t worry-I say that to myself every morning. it will all work out. If you do your best, it will all work out. Put your trist in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

184. “Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do great and good things. Believe that no mountain is so high that you cannot climb it. Believe that no storm is so great that you cannot weather it. You are not destined to be a scrub. You are a child of God, of infinite capacity.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

185. “Love for the Lord, love for His servants the missionaries. Missionary work is a work of love and trust, and it has to be done on that basis.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

186. “God has brought us together as families to bring to pass His eternal purposes. We are part of this plan in this marriage relationship. let us love and respect and honor one another. We can do it, and we will be the better for it.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

187. “Each of us has to face the matter – either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

188. “Within your sphere of responsibility you have as serious an obligation as do I within my sphere of responsibility. Each of us should be determined to build the kingdom of God on the earth and to further the work of righteousness.”

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189. “Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. “I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy.””

— Gordon B. Hinckley

190. “All the beauty in the earth bears the fingerprint of the master creator.”

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191. “We live in a society that feeds on criticism. It is so easy to find fault, and to resist doing so requires much discipline.”

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192. “The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another.”

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193. “Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter of God and a son of God walking side by side. Let your families be families of love and peace and happiness. Gather your children around you and have your family home evenings, teach your children the ways of the Lord, read to them from the scriptures, and let them come to know the great truths of the eternal gospel as set forth in these words of the Almighty.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

194. “I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a “tightwad,” if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind.”

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195. “By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”

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196. “Children don’t need beating. They need love and encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear. Above all, they need example.”

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197. “If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.”

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198. “Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.”

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199. “There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!”

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200. “Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley