Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes About Criticism
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We live in a society that feeds on criticism. It is so easy to find fault, and to resist doing so requires much discipline.
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Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.
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There is too much of criticism and faultfinding with anger and raised voices.
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I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I have lived long enough and served in enough different capacities to have removed from my mind, if such were necessary, any doubt of the divinity of this, the work of God. We respect those of other churches. We desire their friendship and hope to render meaningful service with them. We know they all do good, but we unabashedly state—and this frequently brings criticism upon us—that this is the true and living Church of our Father in Heaven and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Criticism is the seed of divorce, and it develops rebellion in our young.
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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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Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.
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Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. A man and a woman fall in love, as they say; each is wonderful in the sight of the other; they feel romantic affection for no one else; they stretch their finances to buy a diamond ring; they marry. All is bliss-that is, for a season. Then little inconsequential activities lead to criticism. Little flaws are magnified into great torrents of faultfinding; they fall apart, they separate, and then with rancor and bitterness they divorce.
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All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.
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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
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I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained in criticism, and more generous with compliments.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
- Born: June 23, 1910
- Died: January 27, 2008
- Occupation: Religious Leader
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