Quotes from Gordon Hinckley

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 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.

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

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.