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Love is the very essence of life.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Gordon B. Hinckley
Age: 97 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 23
Died: 2008
Died: January 27
Hymnwriter
Prophet
Religious Leader
Salt Lake City
Utah
Gordon Bitner Hinckley
Gordon Hinckley
Essence
Love
Life
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Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive.
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He who is our Eternal Father has blessed you with miraculous powers of mind and body. He never intended that you should be less than the crowning glory of His creations.
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We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man' (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere.
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. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.
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I believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had.
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Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end.
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Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.
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Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.
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Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow.
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The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that time is not far distant. How I wish we could get the vision of this work, the genius of it, and realize the nearness of that great event. I am sure it would have a sobering effect upon us if we realized what is before us.
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You have the potential to become anything to which you set your mind. You have a mind and a body and a spirit. With these three working together, you can walk the high road that leads to achievement and happiness. But this will require effort and sacrifice and faith.
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A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.
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Our Eternal Father lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer.
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I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law.
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There is nothing the Lord has asked of us that in faith we cannot accomplish.
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It’s true, isn’t it? Then what else really matters?
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Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier.
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He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.
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It was a very limited practice carefully safeguarded. In 1890, that practice was discontinued.
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Don't waste your time searching and wishing. Grow and be ready...and you'll see God will give you a love story far better than you could ever dreamed of.
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