Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

A nation that turns it back on Christ and God's words of truth will inevitably regret it.

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Allah hates disbelievers.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Flesh will not stand in front of God, so all the decisions you make from your flesh will be paid for with your soul. Your flesh rejects the truth because it desires to do what it wants to do.

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

Act, and God will act.

The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.