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I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.Collection: Gordon
Oh, I don't think religion has failed. It's man who has failed. Christ hasn't failed. The Gospel hasn't failed. The teachings of God have not failed.Collection: Gordon
My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us.Collection: Gordon
Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.Collection: Gordon
I cannot understand why any young man - or young woman, for that matter - would wish to undergo the painful process of disfiguring the skin with various multicolored representations of people, animals, and various symbols.Collection: Gordon
Nothing's too good for the Lord.Collection: Gordon
Some of you, unfortunately, will never marry in this life. That turns out to be the case sometimes. If that happens, do not spend your life grieving over it. The world still needs your talents. It needs your contribution.Collection: Gordon
Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.Collection: Gordon
My heart goes out to a missionary who does not receive regular mail from home. Generally, a letter once a week is a good rule. But on the other hand, too much mail can be damaging to a missionary's morale.Collection: Gordon
It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.Collection: Gordon
In the underdeveloped countries, we have young men and women, many of them of capacity but without opportunity to improve themselves. They cannot do so without help.Collection: Gordon
If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.Collection: Gordon
Opportunities for sharing the gospel are everywhere.Collection: Gordon
The Lord is forgiving, but sometimes life is not forgiving.Collection: Gordon
The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.Collection: Gordon
With small means the Lord accomplishes His marvelous work.Collection: Gordon
My children are now all grown. Some are in their 60s. But when they call and I answer the phone, they say, 'How are you?' And before I can answer, they ask, 'Is Mother there?'Collection: Gordon
You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do.Collection: Gordon
If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.Collection: Gordon
A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.Collection: Gordon
Brigham Young had a prophetic vision.Collection: Gordon
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.Collection: Gordon
We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.Collection: Gordon
There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.Collection: Gordon
I submit that in the few minutes that Joseph Smith was with the Father and the Son, he learned more of the nature of God the Eternal Father and the risen Lord than all the learned minds in all their discussions through all centuries of time.Collection: Gordon
You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.Collection: Gordon
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.Collection: Gordon
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.Collection: Gordon
Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.Collection: Gordon
We all exercise agency in the choices we make.Collection: Gordon
I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.Collection: Gordon
Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions. Baptism is a necessary ordinance.Collection: Gordon
If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.Collection: Gordon
If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.Collection: Gordon
A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.Collection: Gordon
We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.Collection: Gordon
People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.Collection: Gordon
The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.Collection: Gordon
The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.Collection: Gordon
There is nothing we could do of greater importance than to have fortified in our individual lives an unshakable conviction that Jesus is the Christ, the living Son of the living God.Collection: Gordon
I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.Collection: Gordon
Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.Collection: Gordon
Every convert is a son or daughter of God.Collection: Gordon
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.Collection: Gordon
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.Collection: Gordon
I have many friends of other religions, and I am satisfied that they are very conscientious, good people who are trying to do good. I appreciate that.Collection: Gordon
If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.Collection: Gordon
The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.Collection: Gordon
Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.Collection: Gordon
We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.Collection: Gordon