Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.
There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.
Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.
We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.
Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions. Baptism is a necessary ordinance.
We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.
Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.
We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.
I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'
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.
I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.
I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.
Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day.
Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.
People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.
At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.
Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.
Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.
We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.
I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.
If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
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.
There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.
Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.
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.
Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.
You don't need coffee. Nobody needs coffee. You can get along without it.
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.
People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.
Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.
When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you'll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.
If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.
I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
