Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.

If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

New societies need civic saints.

You cannot let men live like pigs …. We need not wait for the Millennium to get rid of the slum. We can do it now.

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.

The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

The nation is built upon the foundation of its homes and the home upon its families.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.

Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.