Testimony Archives - Gordon B. Hinckley https://gordonhinckley.com/category/testimony Prophet and 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Fri, 23 May 2014 07:52:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Gordon B Hinckley: Temple Building https://gordonhinckley.com/53/gordon-b-hinckley-temple-building https://gordonhinckley.com/53/gordon-b-hinckley-temple-building#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:04:22 +0000 http://gordonhinckley.com/52/temple-building Mormon Temple Denver Coloradio“When it was announced that we would build a temple in [Denver] and had selected a site on which it should stand, opposition rose against us. We gave up that site an tried another. Again we were thwarted. But we were determined to go forward, putting our trust in the Lord that He would guide us in accomplishing His purposes. Two other possible sites were selected.  At the time, President Kimball and President Romney were both ill, and mine was a serious responsibility. I asked President Benson, then President of the Council of the Twelve, if we might go to Denver together, and there with Elder Russell Taylor, we looked over these sites. I give you my testimony that we were guided by the Spirit in choosing the ground on which the beautiful structure now stands. . . .”

(”The War We Are Winning,” Ensign, November 1986, pp. 43-44.)

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]]> https://gordonhinckley.com/53/gordon-b-hinckley-temple-building/feed 0 Sealing Power of the Priesthood https://gordonhinckley.com/52/sealing-power-of-the-priesthood https://gordonhinckley.com/52/sealing-power-of-the-priesthood#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:49:44 +0000 http://gordonhinckley.com/51/sealing-power-of-the-priesthood Melchizedek Priesthood Restoration Mormon“I thank [Joseph Smith] and love him for the sealing power of the holy priesthood that makes possible and certain the continuance of the family through eternity. I have said many times that if nothing else came out of all the sorrow and travail and pain of the restoration than the sealing power of the holy priesthood to bind together families forever, it would have been worth all that it has cost.”

(”As One Who Loves the Prophet,” Symposium on the Life and Ministry of the Prophet Joseph Smith, BYU, February 22, 1992.)

]]> https://gordonhinckley.com/52/sealing-power-of-the-priesthood/feed 0 Priesthood Power https://gordonhinckley.com/51/priesthood-power https://gordonhinckley.com/51/priesthood-power#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:46:24 +0000 http://gordonhinckley.com/50/priesthood-power Mormon Priesthood“I thank my Eternal Father for the restoration of the holy priesthood, that ‘every man might speak in the name of God the Lord, even the Savior of the world’ (D&C 1:20). I have seen the beauty and wonder of that priesthood in the governance of this remarkable church. I have felt its power flow through me to the blessing and healing of the sick. I have seen the ennoblement it has given to humble men who have been called to great and serious responsibility. I have seen it as they have spoken with power and authority from on high as if the voice of God were speaking through them.”

(”My Testimony,” Ensign, November, 1993, p. 52)

]]> https://gordonhinckley.com/51/priesthood-power/feed 0 Prayer https://gordonhinckley.com/49/prayer https://gordonhinckley.com/49/prayer#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:36:36 +0000 http://gordonhinckley.com/48/prayer Mormon Praying Boy“I can call on the Lord for help as a leader in this Church. I know we do it, but we need to do it a little more earnestly. Nothing helps so much as putting a matter in the hands of the Lord. . . I don’t hesitate to say that I have had prayers answered. I know that. I could not deny it. We need to pray for guidance in this difficult age. . . . Prayer is a marvelous and miraculous resource we have available to us. The marvelous thing is you don’t have to be a genius to pray. He will listen to the voice of the most humble.”

(Smithfield/Logan Utah Regional Conference, priesthood leadership session, April 20, 1996.)

]]> https://gordonhinckley.com/49/prayer/feed 0 Purpose of the Church https://gordonhinckley.com/40/purpose-of-the-church https://gordonhinckley.com/40/purpose-of-the-church#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:10:16 +0000 http://gordonhinckley.com/40/purpose-of-the-church Mormon Church“The Church is the great teacher and builder of values. Its precepts are designed to lead men and women along the way of immortality and eternal life, to make their lives more complete, more rich and happy whle moving through this vale of tears, and in preparing them for the beauties and wonders of that which lies ahead. Keep faith with the Church. It is true. It is divine. He who stands at its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the world. It is the church of the Almighty that carries the name of His divine Son. Its earthly leaders are those who are called of God under a plan that He has put in place.”

(”To a Man Who Has Done What This Church Expects of Each of Us,” BYU 1995-96 Speeches, October 17, 1995, p. 52.)

]]> https://gordonhinckley.com/40/purpose-of-the-church/feed 0 Miracles https://gordonhinckley.com/35/miracles https://gordonhinckley.com/35/miracles#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:55:35 +0000 http://gordonhinckley.com/35/miracles Mormon Helping Hands“I have seen miracles in my time, my brothers and sisters.  The greatest miracle of all, I believe, is the transformation that comes into the life of a man or a woman who accepts the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and tries to live it in his or her life.”

(Vacavill /Santa Rosa California Regional Conference, May 21, 1995.)

]]> https://gordonhinckley.com/35/miracles/feed 0 The Relevance of Jesus Christ https://gordonhinckley.com/34/the-relevance-of-jesus-christ https://gordonhinckley.com/34/the-relevance-of-jesus-christ#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:54:27 +0000 http://gordonhinckley.com/34/the-relevance-of-jesus-christ Jesus Christ in Book of Mormon“While seated in front of my television screen watching the funeral of General Eisenhower, I reflected on the wonder of the quite man of Galilee, whose life and teachings have ever-increasing relevance in our time–as great a relevance, I would like to say, as in the day that he walked the earth.  In response to such a statement as this on another occasion, a straggly haired young intellectual asked, “What relevance?  Just what relevance has Jesus for us?  Why, he’s as out-of date as the Roman legions who occupied Jerusalem when he was there.”

“Relevance?” I replied. “Ask my friends who tearfully watched the body of a beloved child lowered into the grave.  Ask my neighbor who lost her husband in an accident.  Ask the fathers and mothers of the thousands of good young men who have died in the steaming jungles of Vietnam.  He–the risen Lord Jesus Christ–is their only comfort. There is nothing more relevant to the cold, stark fact of death thanthe assurance of eternal life.” . . .This is the promise of the risen Lord. This is the relevance of Jesus to a world in which all must die.  But there is further and ore immediate relevance.  As he is the conqueror of death, so also is he the master of life.  His way is the answer to the troubles of the world in which we live.”

(”The Wonder of Jesus,” Improvement Era, June 1969, p. 74.)

]]> https://gordonhinckley.com/34/the-relevance-of-jesus-christ/feed 0 Testimony of The First Vision https://gordonhinckley.com/29/testimony-of-the-first-vision https://gordonhinckley.com/29/testimony-of-the-first-vision#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:03:07 +0000 http://gordonhinckley.com/29/testimony-of-the-first-vision Joseph Smith's First Vision Mormon Theology“A most remarkable manifestation occurred on a spring morning in the year 1820 when the Father and the Son appeared to the boy Joseph Smith. All of the good we see in the Church today is the fruit of that remarkable visitation, a testimony of which has touched the hearts of millions in many lands. I add my own witness, given me by the Spirit, that the Prophet’s description of that marvelous event is true, that God the Eternal Father and the risen Lord Jesus Christ spoke with him on that occasion in a conversation as real and personal and intimate as are our conversations today.”

(”Be Thou an Example,” Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1981, p. 51.)
I thank my Father in Heaven for the testimony I have of the reality of the First Vision. I have stood among the trees where Joseph knelt as a boy, and heard the whisperings of the Spirit that it happened as he said it happened.

(”My Testimony, ” Ensign, November 1993, p. 51.)

]]> https://gordonhinckley.com/29/testimony-of-the-first-vision/feed 1 Church Government: The Council of the Twelve Apostles https://gordonhinckley.com/28/church-government-the-council-of-the-twelve-apostles https://gordonhinckley.com/28/church-government-the-council-of-the-twelve-apostles#respond Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:59:55 +0000 http://gordonhinckley.com/28/church-government-the-council-of-the-twelve-apostles Mormon Leaders Living Apostles“The First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles, called and ordained to hold the keys of the priesthood, have the authority and responsibility to govern the Church, to administer its ordinances, to expound its doctrine, and to establish and maintain its practices. Each man who is ordained an Apostle and sustained a member of the Council of the Twelve is sustained as a prophet, seer, and revelator.

. . All incumbent members of the Quorum of the First Presidency and of he Council of the Twelve have been the recipients of the keys, rights, and authority pertaining to the holy apostleship. . . And now I quote again from the word of the Lord: ‘And every decision made by either of these quorums must be by the unanimous voice of the same; that is, every member in each quorum must be agreed to its decisions, in order to make their decisions of the same power or validity one with the other’ (D&C 107:27).

No decision emanates from the deliberations of the First Presidency and the Twelve without total unanimity among all concerned. At the outset in the considering matters, there may be differences of opinion. These are to be expected. These men come from different backgrounds. They are men who think for themselves. But before a final decision is reached, there comes a unanimity of mind and voice. This is to be expected if the revealed word of the Lord is followed. Again I quote from the revelations: ‘The decisions of these quorums, or either of them, are to be made in all righteousness, in holiness, and lowliness of heart, meekness and long suffering, and in faith, and virtue, and knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness and charity; because the promise is, if these things abound in them they shall not be unfruitful in the knowledge of the Lord’ (D&C 107:30-31).

I add by way of personal testimony that during the twenty years I served as a member of the Council of the Twelve and during the nearly thirteen years that I have served in the First Presidency, there has never been a major action taken where this procedure was not observed.. . Out of this very process of men and speaking their minds has come a sifting and winnowing of ideas and concepts. But I have never observed serious discord or personal enmity among my Brethren. I have, rather, observed a beautiful and remarkable think–the coming together, under the directing influence of the Holy Spirit and under the power of revelation, of divergent views until there is total harmony and full agreement. . I know no other governing body of any kind of which this might be said. . .

(”God is at the Helm,” Ensign, May 1994, pp. 54, 59.)

]]> https://gordonhinckley.com/28/church-government-the-council-of-the-twelve-apostles/feed 0 Determing the Truthfulness of the Book of Mormon https://gordonhinckley.com/27/determing-the-truthfulness-of-the-book-of-mormon https://gordonhinckley.com/27/determing-the-truthfulness-of-the-book-of-mormon#respond Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:54:39 +0000 http://gordonhinckley.com/27/determing-the-truthfulness-of-the-book-of-mormon Book of Mormon“As has been demonstrated for a hundred and fifty years, the truth of the book will not be determined by literary analysis or by scientific research, although these are reassuring and most welcome. The truth will be determined today and tomorrow, as it has been throughout the yesterdays, by the reading of it in a spirit of reverence and respect and prayer. .”

(”‘Praise to the Man,’” BYU Devotional Speeches of the Year, November 4, 1979, p. 205).

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