Quotes by Gordon B. Hinckley

Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.

Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

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.

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.

“Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.”

“Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.”

“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.”

“Be believing, be happy, dont get discouraged. Things will work out.”

“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”

“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of ones companion.”