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

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

In this national bestseller, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gordon B. 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 much-admired life of faith and service, as well as examples from American culture today, he examines ten virtues that have always illuminated the path to a better world: love, honesty, morality, civility, learning, forgiveness and mercy, thrift and industry, gratitude, optimism, and faith. He then shows how the two guardians of virtue--marriage and the family--can keep us on that path, even in difficult times. Standing for Something is an inspiring blueprint for what we all can do--as individuals, as a nation, and as a world community--to rediscover the values and virtues that have historically made us strong and that will lead us to a brighter future.

About the Author :

Gordon B Hinckley has contributed to Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes as an author. Gordon B. Hinckley is the world leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which he was ordained the fifteenth President in 1995. he and his wife, Marjorie Pay Hinckley, live in Salt Lake City and have five children.

Mike Wallace has contributed to Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes . Mike Wallace is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) and director of the Gotham Center for New York City History. He is the coauthor, with Edwin G. Burrows, of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History. Gotham II, which he is writing on his own, will carry the story through the 20th century. Wallace was born and raised in New York City and its environs. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University, studying with Richard Hofstadter, with whom he collaborated on American Vi

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