Quote

The Church expects that each of us carry a share of the burden of leadership. There is no paid clergy. The work is done because of a love of the cause. And as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Love
Effort
Carry
People
Grows
Sacrifice
Causes
Paid
Church
Capacity
Clergy
Given
Leadership
Expects
Done
Cause
Returned
Work
Grow
Burden
Time
Share
Serve

More quotes by Gordon B. Hinckley

Image
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
We need to have a little humor in our lives. .If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
Work will cure your grief. Serve others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
Everything that occurs in the temple is uplifting and ennobling. It speaks of life here and life beyond the grave. It speaks of the importance of the individual as a child of God. It speaks of the importance of the family and the eternity of the marriage relationship.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
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.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Image
There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.
Gordon B. Hinckley