Quotes from Gordon B. Hinckley

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

God bless you, my beloved sisters, who stand as the queens in your home, that you may be happy with that happiness which comes of the knowledge that you are loved and honored and treasured.

Tremendous happiness and peace of mind are the results of loving service to others. Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself.

You will find peace and happiness if you will live the gospel.

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.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

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.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

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.

One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Try a little harder to be a little better.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

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?

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth - the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.

We cannot be unclean and expect the help of the Almighty.

Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.

You don't need coffee. Nobody needs coffee. You can get along without it.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds.

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.