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If we will concentrate on the best, that element will grow until it sparkles.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Gordon B. Hinckley
Age: 97 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 23
Died: 2008
Died: January 27
Hymnwriter
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Gordon Bitner Hinckley
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Criticism is the seed of divorce, and it develops rebellion in our young.
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My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...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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Woman is God’s supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created, and after man had been placed on the earth, was woman created and only then was the work pronounced complete and good.
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Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.
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Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.
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The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
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Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.
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I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed life will be better for you.
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Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.
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