Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes About Church

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• Believe in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Redeemer, the Son of God, who came to earth and walked the dusty roads of Palestine - the Son of God - to teach us the way of truth and light and salvation, and who, in one great and glorious act offered an atonement for each of us. He opened the way of salvation and exaltation for each of us, under which we may go forward in the Church and kingdom of God. Be not faithless, but believe in the great and wonderful and marvelous blessings of the Atonement.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Believe, Son

  "Selections from Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley". Ensign magazine, p. 64, March 2001.

• I love the youth of the Church. I have said again and again that I think we have never had a better generation than this. How grateful I am for your integrity, for your ambition to train your minds and your hands to do good work, for your love of the word of the Lord, and for your desire to walk in paths of virtue and truth and goodness.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Integrity, Grateful, Ambition

• The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding of the grand millennial mission of this, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Eye, Understanding

  Conference Report, 95, April, 1995.

• We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old World, this great and good Holy Bible is one of our standard works. We teach from it. We bear testimony of it. We read from it. It strengthens our testimony. And we add to that this great second witness, the Book of Mormon, the testament of the New World, for as the Bible says, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall [all things] be established" (2 Cor. 13:1).

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Biblical, Two

  "Selections from Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley". Ensign magazine, p. 64, March 2001.

• Each of us has to face the matter — either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Church, Kingdoms, Matter

  "Loyalty". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 2003.

• I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Thinking, Law, Practice

• Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Church, Connections, Polygamy

• Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of passage. It is a gateway to a new manner of living, and a new road on which to walk that leads to immortality and eternal life. It was never intended as a dead end. It was intended to open a glorious and wonderful way of life to all who would walk in obedience to the commandments of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Baptism, Church

• We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Independent, Self

• When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Powerful, Heart, Discipline

• Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

• I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I have lived long enough and served in enough different capacities to have removed from my mind, if such were necessary, any doubt of the divinity of this, the work of God. We respect those of other churches. We desire their friendship and hope to render meaningful service with them. We know they all do good, but we unabashedly state—and this frequently brings criticism upon us—that this is the true and living Church of our Father in Heaven and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Meaningful, Jesus, Father

• Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you are united, your power is limitless. You can accomplish anything you wish to accomplish. -President Gordon B. Hinckley, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Moving On, Strong, Jesus

• This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory. Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Father, Taken

  "This Is the Work of the Master". Ensign magazine, p. 71, May 1995.

• This Church is true. It will weather every storm that beats against it. It will outlast every critic who rises to mock it. It was established by God our Eternal Father for the blessing of His sons and daughters of all generations. It carries the name of Him who stands as its head, even the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. It is governed and moves by the power of the priesthood. It sends forth to the world another witness of the divinity of the Lord. Be faithful, my friends. Be true. Be loyal to the great things of God which have been revealed in this dispensation.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Daughter, Jesus, Father

• When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Heart, Lds, Church

• The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn't just Sunday, it isn't the block plan, it isn't just 3 hours in church, it isn't just the time you spend in Seminary - it's all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Block, Sunday, Years

• Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the fact is the history of the church is clear and open and leads to faith and strength and virtues.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Church, May

  "Pres. Hinckley answers myriad questions about the LDS Church". Associated Press Interview, www.deseretnews.com. December 25, 2005.

• Let everything that you do bring credit and honor to the Church, of which you are a member, and the Lord will bless you and magnify you. Let there be no animosity among you but only love, regardless of race, regardless of circumstances. Let us love one another as the Lord would have us do

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Race, Honor, Church

• It should be recognized that this Church is not a social club. This is the kingdom of God on the earth. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Its purpose is to bring salvation and exaltation to both the living and the dead.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Church, Exaltation

• My plea is that as we continue our search for truth, particularly we of the Church, that we look for strength and goodness rather than weakness and failings in those who did so great a work in their time. We recognize that our forefathers were human. They doubtless made mistakes. Some of them acknowledged making mistakes. But the mistakes were minor when compared with the marvelous work which they accomplished.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Mistake, Church, Weakness

• One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples. We will keep on working to bring the temples to the people, making it more convenient for Latter day Saints everywhere to receive the blessings which can only be had in these holy houses.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Blessing, People, House

  "The Work Goes On". Ensign magazine, p. 1, May 2001.

• I meet young people everywhere who are wonderful and faithful; youth who want to do the right thing and who indicate the reality of what I have been saying for a long time, that we've never had a better generation of young people in the Church than we have today. They are faithful. They are active. They're knowledgeable. They are a great generation, notwithstanding the environment in which many of them are growing up.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Growing Up, Reality, Our Generation

• Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Christian, Names, Church

  "Pres. Hinckley answers myriad questions about the LDS Church". Associated Press Interview, www.deseretnews.com. December 25, 2005.

• We love them [people who have same-sex attractions] as sons and daughters of God. They may have certain inclinations which are powerful and which may be difficult to control. If they do not act upon these inclinations, then they can go forward as do all other members of the Church.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Daughter, Sex, Powerful

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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