Top 300 Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

202. “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.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

203. “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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204. “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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205. “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!”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

206. “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

207. “There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize that they would not exist but for the mother who gave them birth. When they assert their superiority they demean her.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

208. “I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs over the people of the nation, including our own people.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

— Gordon B. Hinckley

210. “Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.”

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211. “Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.”

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212. “Our hope concerning the future is great, and our faith is strong. We know we’ve scarcely scratched the surface of that which will come to pass in the years that lie ahead.”

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213. “I wish to be up and doing. I wish to face each day with resolution and purpose. I wish to use every waking hour to give encouragement, to bless those whose burdens are heavy, to build faith and strength of testimony.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

214. “Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.”

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215. “In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

216. “Fear not; only believe. This is a time to make resolutions that will be binding upon you. This is a season to set standards that will hold you to the right course and make you happy now and in the years that follow.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

217. “There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

218. “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.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

219. “I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of scripture and the teachings of the prophets which we have had constantly before us.”

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220. “The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn’t just Sunday, it isn’t the block plan, it isn’t just 3 hours in church, it isn’t just the time you spend in Seminary – it’s all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

221. “Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the fact is the history of the church is clear and open and leads to faith and strength and virtues.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

222. “Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.”

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223. “Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.”

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224. “I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?”

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225. “Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

226. “Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

227. “I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained in criticism, and more generous with compliments.”

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228. “May heaven’s richest blessings rest upon you, my beloved associates. May faith grow in your hearts. May there be love and peace in your homes. May there be food upon your tables and clothing on your backs. May the smiles of heaven warm your hearts and bring comfort in times of trial.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

229. “While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

230. “It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

231. “Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could lead to the disease called alcoholism, which is humiliating, dangerous, and even deadly...”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

232. “All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.”

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233. “Let us stand a little taller, if you don’t, you will never strengthen yourself.”

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234. “I wish for each of you a time, perhaps only an hour, spent in silent meditation and quiet reflection on the wonder and the majesty of this, the Son of God. Our joy at this season is because He came into the world.”

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235. “God will bless us if we walk in humility.”

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236. “We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.”

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237. “When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart.”

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

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239. “Believe in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Redeemer, the Son of God, who came to earth and walked the dusty roads of Palestine-the Son of God-to teach us the way of truth and light and salvation, and who, in one great and glorious act offered an atonement for each of us. He opened the way of salvation and exaltation for each of us, under which we may go forward in the Church and kingdom of God. Be not faithless, but believe in the great and wonderful and marvelous blessings of the Atonement.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

240. “I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

241. “I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

242. “I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

243. “The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and ambition for you that your earthly parents have. They want you to do well and you can do it.”

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244. “God is only God when he is acting as such.”

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245. “A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God.”

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246. “You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.”

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247. “To our brothers and sisters in harm’s way, we say that we pray for you. We pray that the Lord will watch over you and preserve you from injury and that you may return home and pick up your lives again. We know that you are not in that land of blowing sand and brutal heat because you enjoy the games of war. The strength of your commitment is measured by your willingness to give your very lives for that in which you believe.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

248. “Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.”

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249. “There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.”

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250. “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.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley