GORDON B. HINCKLEY

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.

Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.

Opportunities for sharing the gospel are everywhere.

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Truth will prevail.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Seek to establish an environment conducive to study in the home.

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.

I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

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

How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.

The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.

If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.

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.

My children are now all grown. Some are in their 60s. But when they call and I answer the phone, they say, 'How are you?' And before I can answer, they ask, 'Is Mother there?'

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.

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

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

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

Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.