Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

• I believe that I am a child of God, endowed with a divine birthright. I believe that there is something of divinity within me and within each of you. I believe that we have a godly inheritance and that it is our responsibility, our obligation, and our opportunity to cultivate and nurture the very best of these qualities within us.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

• If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

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  Children, Future, Responsibility

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.169, Harmony

• Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

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  Responsibility, Parenting, Parent

• There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.

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  Encouragement, Responsibility, Criticism

• Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

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  Marriage, Responsibility, Exercise

• This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory. Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Father, Taken

  "This Is the Work of the Master". Ensign magazine, p. 71, May 1995.

• There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else.

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  Responsibility, Blessing, Opportunity

• It is the home which produces the nursery stock of new generations. I hope that you mothers will realize that when all is said and done, you have no more compelling responsibility, nor any laden with greater rewards, than the nurture you give your children in an environment of security, peace, companionship, love and motivation to grow and do well.

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  Mother, Motivation, Children

• The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

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  Responsibility, World

• We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man' (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere.

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  Father, Responsibility, Men

  "This Is the Work of the Master" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. May 1995.

• If you will accept every call that comes to you within the Church, you will grow in a remarkable and marvelous and wonderful way. With responsibility comes growth, and the Lord will magnify you and make you equal to every responsibility which is given you.

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  Responsibility, Growth, Church

• Within your sphere of responsibility you have as serious an obligation as do I within my sphere of responsibility. Each of us should be determined to build the kingdom of God on the earth and to further the work of righteousness.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Responsibility, Earth, Kingdoms

• The best food storage is not in welfare grain elevators but in sealed cans and bottles in the homes of our people. What a gratifying thing it is to see cans of wheat and rice and beans under the beds or in the pantries of women who have taken welfare responsibility into their own hands. Such food may not be tasty, but it will be nourishing if it has to be used.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Taken, Responsibility, Home

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