Top 300 Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

152. “Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

153. “A testimony is a conviction, a quiet inward certainty of the reality of the living God, of the divinity of His Beloved Son, of the restoration of Their work in this time. It demands that we do what He has asked us to do.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

154. “How thankful I am, how thankful we all must be, for the women in our lives. God bless them. May His great love distill upon them and crown them with luster and beauty, grace and faith.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

155. “To save a girl is to save generations!”

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156. “I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That’s much better than watching television, much better. They won’t get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.”

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157. “If we will concentrate on the best, that element will grow until it sparkles.”

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158. “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

159. “It is so tremendously important that the women of the Church stand strong and immovable for that which is correct and proper under the plan of the Lord. They must begin in their own homes. They can teach it in their classes. They can voice it in their communities. They must be the teachers and the guardians of their daughters. When you save a girl, you save generations. I see this as one bright shining hope in a world that is marching toward moral self-destruction.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

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161. “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

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

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163. “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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164. “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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165. “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

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

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167. “Just as our Redeemer gave His life as a vicarious sacrifice for all men, and in so doing became our Savior, even so we, in a small measure, when we engage in proxy work in the temple, become as saviors to those on the other side.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

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

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

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172. “There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.”

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

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174. “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.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

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

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

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178. “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

179. “Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.”

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

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

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

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183. “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

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

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185. “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.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

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

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

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

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

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192. “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

193. “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.”

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194. “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.”

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195. “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.””

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

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198. “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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199. “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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200. “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