Quotes from Gordon B. Hinckley

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

Don't be gloomy. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. [Life is about] joy,... something to be happy and excited about.

Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.

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

At this time of Christmas, this season when gifts are given, let us not forget that God gave His Son, and His Son gave His life, that each of us might have the gift of eternal life.

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

The Lord is forgiving, but sometimes life is not forgiving.

You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do.

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into your own hearts and minds. If there is something wrong, turn about. Put a smile on your faces. Make yourselves more attractive. Brighten your outlook.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.

There is dissatisfaction among a great many Christian people. They are not happy with what they have and, therefore, respond readily to the message of the restored gospel.

My children are now all grown. Some are in their 60s. But when they call and I answer the phone, they say, 'How are you?' And before I can answer, they ask, 'Is Mother there?'

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.

Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.

When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you'll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.

Opportunities for sharing the gospel are everywhere.

How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

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.

Some of our finest work comes through service to others.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.