Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you!

There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feels, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real.

My father was a minister for 50 years with Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always said, "Amen. God is love." I thought God is love was one word. Like "Godislove." And it took me a long time to learn what that really meant.

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is #‎ prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in #‎ Heaven .

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

I had the privilege of playing an angel on 'Touched by an Angel' for many years - almost two decades, and we would deliver a message on the show. The message was that God loves them, and before filming every scene, we would come together and pray.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

Trust in God - she will provide.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don't pray regularly enough.

I've taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.