It is not enough just to live, just to survive. It is incumbent on each of us to equip ourselves to do something worthwhile in society – to acquire more and more light, so that our personal light can help illuminate the darkened world.
Gordon B. Hinkley
Standing for Something, p.67
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“We recognize the good in all people. We recognize the good in all churches, in their efforts to improve mankind and to teach principles that lead to good, stable, productive living. To people everywhere we simply say, ‘You bring with you all the good that you have, and let us add to it. That is the principle on which we work’”Gordon B. Hinkley. (Interview with Philippines Television, 30 April 1996).
http://www.lds.org/liahona/1997/06/words-of-the-living-prophet?lang=eng
http://www.lds.org/liahona/1997/06/words-of-the-living-prophet?lang=eng
RB: As the world leader of the the Church, how are you in touch with God? Can you explain that for me?
Gordon B Hinkley: I pray. I pray to Him. Night and morning. I speak with Him. I think He hears my prayers. As He hears the prayers of others. I think He answers them.
RB: But more than that, because you’re leader of the Church. Do you have a special connection?
GBH: I have a special relationship in terms of the Church as an institution. Yes.
RB: And you receive........
GBH: For the entire Church.
RB: You receive?
GBH: Now we don’t need a lot of continuing revelation. We have a great, basic reservoir of revelation. But if a problem arises, as it does occasionally, a vexatious thing with which we have to deal, we go to the Lord in prayer. We discuss it as a First Presidency and as a Council of the Twelve Apostles. We pray about it and then comes the whisperings of a still small voice. And we know the direction we should take and we proceed accordingly.
http://www.abc.net.au/compass/intervs/hinckley.htm
Gordon B Hinkley: I pray. I pray to Him. Night and morning. I speak with Him. I think He hears my prayers. As He hears the prayers of others. I think He answers them.
RB: But more than that, because you’re leader of the Church. Do you have a special connection?
GBH: I have a special relationship in terms of the Church as an institution. Yes.
RB: And you receive........
GBH: For the entire Church.
RB: You receive?
GBH: Now we don’t need a lot of continuing revelation. We have a great, basic reservoir of revelation. But if a problem arises, as it does occasionally, a vexatious thing with which we have to deal, we go to the Lord in prayer. We discuss it as a First Presidency and as a Council of the Twelve Apostles. We pray about it and then comes the whisperings of a still small voice. And we know the direction we should take and we proceed accordingly.
http://www.abc.net.au/compass/intervs/hinckley.htm
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