Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

I believe the bible helps yourself.

God-willing and prayerfully, we are always growing and changing and developing personally and professionally.

I study the bible regularly, meet with older wiser mentors weekly, and keep a group of guys in my life who challenge me spiritually. That keeps me moving.

Players have to let themselves be helped.

Football is important, but my family and faith are also important, and no matter how good a football player I am, I knew I still needed to be a good member of the church. Having that spiritual connection helped me throughout the season. It brought balance. I felt better about myself and saw improvements in all aspects of my life.

I feel that, every day, God molds me into someone that He wants me to be. So if that means just, like, talking to teammates and helping them out, or, like, every so often I'll post a Bible verse on Twitter or Instagram.

If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.

Don't try to be perfect. Do the best you can. Enlist help!

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

Without the church it's like having a boat without the rudder. You think you can do it on your own and this may sound pedestrian or trite but I'll equate it to this: all my life I've been involved with exercise but no matter how much - and I know a great deal about the body - you need help. You need a trainer. You need to go to a gym and you need to have the expertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and what the church is. The church is the gym of the soul.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself.

Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

This is our first interest as a church-to save and exalt the souls of the children of men. There is no richer program anywhere in the world than we have in the Church today for the building of men and women and providing the answers to the problems that face parents, families, and individuals. It is a program that is needed today as never before.

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life. That joy is increased when those efforts help someone understand the teachings of the Savior and that person decides to obey them, is converted, and joins His Church.

The thing is that oftentimes, we want to be everything all at once. We want to be strong and mature, and God wants that for us, too. But just like that flowerpot had to sit in the sun and receive water day after day, we have to sit in God's presence every day, too.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Lord, bless our week. Help us to take all the necessary risks to become the person we always wanted to be.

Ask God to show you any changes you need to make in your relationships. And make sure your closest relationship continues to be with Jesus Himself.