A few things from the book I'm reading right now, Go Forward With Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley.
Some quotes about Gordon B. Hinckley's father...
"Father was not interested in the mysteries of the Kingdom. The thing that characterized his religion was its application to everyday life. He had little use for religion that did not register in one's life, that did not manifest itself in his behavior. He never regarded religion as a cloak that could be laid off and put on at one's convenience..."
"I think I have never seen as good a man as he was. He preached the loudest by practice and the least by noise or talk of any man I ever knew."
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Gordon's childhood...
"All of the pruning, year after year, yielded an important lesson that embedded itself in Gordon's subconscious: the quality of fruit picked in September is determined by the way the trees are shaped and trimmed in February."
"Over time, Gordon developed a familiarity with good books and came to appreciate what his parents valued - literature and history, learning and education. Years later he concurred with Emerson, who, when asked which of all the books he had read had most affected his life, said that he could no more remember the books he had read than the meals he had eaten, but that they had made him."
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"There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook."
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