Gordon B. Hinckley

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.

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

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

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

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.

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

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.

Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.

Today is a part of eternity.

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.

I've been blessed so abundantly that I can never get over it. I just feel so richly blessed that I want to extend that to others wherever I can.

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.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.

Children can be disciplined with love.

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

Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day.