Quotes from Gordon Hinckley

Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.

With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

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.

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.

Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.

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.

Our bodies... are the tabernacles of our spirits.

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

The world is starved for spiritual food.