Quotes from Gordon B. Hinckley

With small means the Lord accomplishes His marvelous work.

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

Until I got older, I never dreamed of what a demanding responsibility it is to keep food in the pantry, to keep clothing neat and presentable, to buy all that is needed to keep a home running.

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.

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.

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

I have two sons. Good sons. They're both businessmen.

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.

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.

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 all exercise agency in the choices we make.

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

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

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

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't think others know a lot about it.

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.

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.

He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.