Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Age, Pickles, Cynicism

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.116, Harmony

• Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Home, Love Is

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.3, Harmony

• I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Writing, Men, Serious Illness

• Carry on. Things will work out. If you keep trying and praying and working, things will work out. They always do. If you want to die at an early age, dwell on the negative. Accentuate the positive, and you’ll be around for a while.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Work Out, Age, Trying

• There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Men, Age

• In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Wings, Age, Evening

• You are great young people. I have said again and again, we have the finest generation of young people ever in the history of this Church. I believe it. You know the gospel better. You come to seminary and you learn about the things of the Lord here. You know more about the gospel than those of my generation at your age did without any question. I am satisfied of that. Furthermore, you are intrinsically better. You are wonderful young people!

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Our Generation, People

• For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this, the Dispensation of the Fulness [sic] of Times. He, together with His Father, appeared to the boy Joseph Smith in the year 1820, and when Joseph left the grove that day, he knew more of the nature of God than all the learned ministers of the gospel of the ages.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Boys, Years

  "Crown of gospel is upon our heads". www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com. June 20, 1998.

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