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" Some of our finest work comes through service to others. "

Gordon B. Hinckley

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" We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority. "

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" In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference. "

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" 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. "

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" I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort. "

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" 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. "

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" I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary. "

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

Gordon B. Hinckley

" Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire. "

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" 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. "

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" You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do. "

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" Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation. "

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" We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young. "

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" 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. "

Gordon B. Hinckley

" The world is starved for spiritual food. "

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" The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up. "

Gordon B. Hinckley

" It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do. "

Gordon B. Hinckley

" If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen. "

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" I have many friends of other religions, and I am satisfied that they are very conscientious, good people who are trying to do good. I appreciate that. "

Gordon B. Hinckley

" My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us. "

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

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" The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way. "

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" I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes. "

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" A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body. "

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" My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she'd like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem. "

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" Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. "

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" Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish. "

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