Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Who knows what will happen in five years' time.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

In former times humans had fear of the future. Today the future must have fear of humans.

The pollsters are engaged in an ancient and primitive rite—trying to predict the future.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good. For me, this is an important key. If one has the answers to all the questions—that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt.

Distance is collapsing in our world. People all over the world are having difficulty imagining their future, and their governments just tell them about the virtues of the past.

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears His name. He stands at its head and directs it through His chosen prophets.

I really don't want to guess or assume. I just leave it all to the man upstairs and the future. I'm just excited to see what comes next, and I'm gonna be ready for it.

The future belongs to God.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

First of all, God inspires me, where he's brought me, it blows my mind. To know that He brought me this far, it could not have been an accident, to go forward, I'm excited to leap into the void, I'm excited about tomorrow, the unknown, excited to see what else He has for me.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.