Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

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Overview

No nation can be greater than the strength of its individual homes or the virtue of its people. Sadly, many today would say ours is a nation in crisis. Families are splintering around us, our children are becoming alienated from their great cultural heritage, and our leaders seem increasingly out of touch. Yet, according to Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one cannot lose hope. The solution lies not within our government, schools, or symbols of popular culture, but rather within ourselves, our families, and our faith.

In the tradition of William Bennett's Book of Virtues, Hinckley has created a classic look at the values that can change our world—and how to stand up for them. Drawing on anecdotes from his own life, as well as from our nation today, he examines ten virtues that have proven through the ages to provide the most profound path to a better world: love, honesty, morality, civility, learning, forgiveness and mercy, thrift and industry, gratitude, optimism, and faith.

Standing for Something is an inspiring blue-print for what we can all do—as individuals, as a nation, and as a world community—to rediscover the values that make us strong and by which all of us can work toward a brighter future.

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“A great sickness has invaded our land,” claims Gordon Hinckley, world leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “But,” he adds, “there is great reason to have hope.” In this book, Hinckley speaks plainly and movingly about his hope: ten virtues that can save America. By practicing these virtues, Hinckley promises, we can enrich not only our lives but also our nation. And what could be more important in this time of change? “If we would individually and collectively resolve to stand for something, to lift our voices for truth and goodness and offer our supplications to our Eternal Father,” promises Hinckley, “those supplications would be heard, and the result would be remarkable.”

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  • ISBN-13: 9780609807255
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 3/20/2001
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 424,185
  • Product dimensions: 5.17 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.52 (d)

Meet the Author

Gordon B. Hinckley was ordained the world leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1995. He lives with his wife, Marjorie Pay Hinckley, in Salt Lake City. The Hinckleys, who have been married for more than sixty years, have five children and twenty-five grandchildren.

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We need a new emphasis on honesty, character, and integrity. As we build into the fiber of our individual lives the virtues that are the essence of true civilization, so will the pattern of our times change. The question that confronts us is: Where shall we begin?

One Love: The Lodestar of Life

Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness.

When I was a little boy, we children traced paper hearts at school on Valentine's Day. At night, we dropped them at the doors of our friends, stamped on the porch, and then ran into the dark to hide.

Almost without exception, those Valentines had printed on them: "I love you." I have since come to know that love is more than a paper heart. Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is not found only at the end of the rainbow. Love is at the beginning also, and from it springs the beauty that arches across the sky on a stormy day. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shining through death. How rich are those who enjoy it in their associations with family, friends, and neighbors!

Love, like faith, is a gift of God. It is also the most enduring and most powerful virtue.

In our youth, we sometimes acquire faulty ideas of love, believing that it can be imposed or simply created for convenience. I noted the following in a newspaper column some years ago:

One of the grand errors we tend to make when we are young is supposing that a person is a bundle of qualities, and we add up the individual's good and bad qualities, like a bookkeeper working on debits and credits. If the balance is favorable, we may decide to take the jump [into marriage]. . . . The world is full of unhappy men and women who married because . . . it seemed to be a good investment. Love, however, is not an investment; it is an adventure. And when marriage turns out to be as dull and comfortable as a sound investment, the disgruntled party soon turns elsewhere. . . . Ignorant people are always saying, "I wonder what he sees in her," not realizing that what he sees in her (and what no one else can see) is the secret essence of love.
I think of two friends from my high school and university years. He was a boy from a country town, plain in appearance, without money or apparent promise. He had grown up on a farm, and if he had any quality that was attractive, it was the capacity to work. He carried bologna sandwiches in a brown paper bag for his lunch, and swept the school floors to pay his tuition. But with all of his rustic appearance, he had a smile and a personality that seemed to sing of goodness. She was a city girl who had come out of a comfortable home. She would not have won a beauty contest, but she was wholesome in her decency and integrity, and attractive in her decorum and dress.

Something wonderful took place between them. They fell in love. Some whispered that there were far more promising boys for her, and a gossip or two noted that perhaps other girls might have interested him. But these two laughed and danced and studied together through their school years. They married when people wondered how they could ever earn enough to stay alive. He struggled through his professional school and came out well in his class. She scrimped and saved and worked and prayed. She encouraged and sustained, and when things were really tough, she said quietly, "Somehow we can make it." Buoyed by her faith in him, he kept going through the difficult years. Children came, and together they loved them and nourished them and gave them the security that came of their own love for and loyalty to each other. Now many years have passed. Their children are grown, a lasting credit to them and to the communities in which they live.

I happened to find myself on the same flight as this couple a few years ago. I walked down the aisle in the semidarkness of the cabin and saw a woman, white-haired, her head on her husband's shoulder as she dozed. His hand was clasped warmly about hers. He was awake and recognized me. She awakened, and we talked. They were returning from a convention where he had delivered a paper before a learned society. He said little about it, but she proudly spoke of the honors accorded him.

I wish that I might have caught with a camera the look on her face as she talked of him. Forty-five years earlier, people without understanding had asked what they saw in each other. I thought of that as I returned to my seat. Their friends of those days saw only a farm boy from the country and a smiling girl with freckles on her nose. But these two found in each other love and loyalty, peace and faith in the future. There was a flowering in them of something divine, planted there by that Father who is our God. In their school days, they had lived worthy of that flowering of love. They had lived with virtue and faith, with appreciation and respect for self and one another. In the years of their difficult professional and economic struggles, they had found their greatest earthly strength in their companionship. Now, in mature age, they were finding peace and quiet satisfaction together.

There is nothing as energizing, as confidence-building, as sustaining as the power of love. How substantial is its influence on the human mind and heart! How great and magnificent is its power in overcoming fear and doubt, worry and discouragement!

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Introduction: The Secularization of America xi
Part 1 The Ten Virtues
1 Love: The Lodestar of Life 3
2 Where There Is Honesty, Other Virtues Will Follow 15
3 Making a Case for Morality 35
4 Our Fading Civility 53
5 Learning: "With All Thy Getting Get Understanding" 69
6 The Twin Virtues of Forgiveness and Mercy 81
7 Thrift and Industry: Getting Our Houses in Order 93
8 Gratitude: A Sign of Maturity 105
9 Optimism in the Face of Cynicism 115
10 Faith: Our Only Hope 127
Part 2 The Guardians of Virtue
Marriage: What God Hath Joined Together 147
The Family: We Can Save Our Nation by Saving Our Homes 167
Epilogue: The Loneliness of Moral Leadership 197
Notes 213
Index 225

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    A great well written book that just makes plain sense! Fixing societies issues really does start in the home with a good father and mother to give their children the love and support they need to grow into mature and honorable people our country needs more of.

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    'Things of the Lord can only be understood by the spirit of the Lord

    As I was reading this book I was constantly reminded of one of the president's remarks to a question asked to him while being interviewed by mr. wallace on the 60 minutes. This book perhaps reveals an in depth answer and the statement made by our president, 'THINGS OF GOD CAN ONLY UNDERSTOOD BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND WE MUST CULTIVATE THAT SPIRIT TO UNDERSTAND WHATS BEING SAID'. I don't know if I have written it verbatim but I am almost certain that Mr. wallac's question was answered in that statement. I further believe that in order to fully understand and apply whats being revealed in this book a humble prayer and a complete submission to the Lord is of the utmost importance. I humbly pray that all individuals and families make this book a complete guide to their lives. amen.

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    Great Revival of Forgotten Virtues

    This motivational book will sink deep into your soul. As President Hinckley re-teaches the forgotten virtues, a spark of hope will come to mind. Standing for something will mean more, and become a top priority.

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    This is a great book that I would recommend for anyone, especially those who love a knowledgeable and witty mind. It is just overflowing with wisdom from this man's years of experience! Great insights and reminders. Reminds us that WE can make a difference!

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