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God is only God when he is acting as such.

God is only God when he is acting as such.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Acting

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Spiritual, Meetings, Ought

Carry on. Things will work out. If you keep trying and praying and working, things will work out. They always do. If you want to die at an early age, dwell on the negative. Accentuate the positive, and you’ll be around for a while.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Work Out, Age, Trying

Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Past, Wonderful, Our Future

In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound an effect on you as the way your children turn out. You will either rejoice and boast of their accomplishments or you will weep, head in hands, bereft and forlorn, if they become a disappointment or an embarrassment to you.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Children, Disappointment, Parenting

Under the sacred and compelling trust we have as members of the Church of Jesus Christ, ours is a work of redemption, of lifting and saving those who need help. Ours is a task of raising the sights of those of our people who fail to realize the great potential that lies within them.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Jesus, Lying, Sight

It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and mingle with the great of the earth, counsel with the wise of all time, look into the unlived days with prophets...To become acquainted with real nobility as it walks the pages of history and science and literature is to strengthen character and develop life in its finer meanings.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Wise, Real, Book

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Debt, Want, Causes

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Reading, Scripture, Affair

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Names, Being True, Be True To Who You Are

As we have been continuously counseled for more than 60 years, let us have some food set aside that would sustain us for a time in case of need. But let us not panic nor go to extremes. Let us be prudent in every respect. And, above all, my brothers and sisters, let us move forward with faith in the Living God and His Beloved Son.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Religious, Brother, Moving

You never know how much good you do.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Know How, Knows

We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Music, Heart, Men

Nobody is lost until somebody has given up.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Lost, Given, Given Up
"At Home with the Hinckleys". Interview with Marvin K. Gardner and Don L. Searle, www.lds.org. October 2003.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Missionary, Rewards, Joyful
"A Visit with Elder Gordon B. Hinckley about Missionary Work". Interview with Brian Kelly, www.lds.org. June 1973.

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

Gordon B. Hinckley
How Precious Life Is, Life Is Precious, Sacred
"SUNDAY INTERVIEW - Musings of the Main Mormon / Gordon B. Hinckley, `president, prophet, seer and revelator' of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sits at the top of one of the world's fastest-growing religions". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. April 13, 1997.

In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Encouragement, Differences, Preparation

You need more than your own wisdom in rearing [your children]. You need the help of the Lord. Pray for that help and follow the inspiration which you receive.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Children, Inspiration, Needs
"The Fabric of Faith and Testimony". General Conference, www.lds.org. October 1995.

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Past, Night, One Night

It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Moving, Thinking, Work Out
Priesthood Session of Jordan Utah South Regional Conference, March 01, 1997.

I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'

Gordon B. Hinckley
Angel, Boys, Simple

Behold your little ones. Pray with them. Pray for them and bless them. The world into which they are moving is a complex and difficult world. They will run into heavy seas of adversity. They will need all the strength and all the faith you can give them while they are yet near you. While they are young, pray with them that they may come to know that source of strength which shall then always be taught of the Lord' and great shall be the peace of thy children.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Running, Children, Moving

My plea is that as we continue our search for truth, particularly we of the Church, that we look for strength and goodness rather than weakness and failings in those who did so great a work in their time. We recognize that our forefathers were human. They doubtless made mistakes. Some of them acknowledged making mistakes. But the mistakes were minor when compared with the marvelous work which they accomplished.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Mistake, Church, Weakness

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

Gordon B. Hinckley
Would Be, Presence Of God, Marvelous
Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.50, Harmony

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

Gordon B. Hinckley
Thinking, Would Be, World
"Transcript: National Press Club Q&A with President Gordon B. Hinckley". Interview with Jack Cushman, www.deseretnews.com. March 8, 2000.

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