Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

What comes to a person in his or her life, however difficult it may be, perhaps will help a person move closer to God. The response to tribulation is abr, which is patience, perseverance, steadfastness, and resolve. Allāh loves the patient; part of the reason the tribulation comes is to draw the quality of patience out of them - He loves this quality.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.

That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

The principle part of faith is patience.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Trust in God and keep your powder dry.

God will give you no more than you can handle.

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

I never lost my faith.

I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter.

Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end: but he who has faith in the heavens above will weather any storm.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.