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I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

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
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Pleading
Going
Knees
Work
Except
Feet
Getting
Help
Helping
Anything

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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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With the increase of missionary work throughout the world, there must be a comparable increase in the effort to make every convert feel at home in his or her ward or branch. . . . I invite every member to reach out in friendship and love for those who come into the Church as converts.
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What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.
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God will bless us if we walk in humility.
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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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All of us have to deal with death at one time or another, but to have in one's heart a solid conviction concerning the reality of eternal life is to bring a sense of peace in an hour of tragedy that can come from no other source under the heavens
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I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?
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Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
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It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.
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Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it
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