Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

I love, when I'm on holiday in cities, going into church and feeling that reverence and that kind of automatic respect: the sort of magic which exists in those kind of religious temples.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.

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

Much prayer, but no piety.

we admonish that men keep Sunday's festival with all their might, and observe it from Saturday's noon to Monday's dawning; and no man be so bold that he either go to market or seek any court on that holy day

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

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.

We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.

Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.