Families

This tag attaches to the family-life threads in Gordon B. Hinckley — Go Forward With Faith. The biography treats the Hinckley family as a worked example of values lived rather than preached: Bryant and Ada Hinckley’s “inherently positive outlook permeated the family atmosphere,” with the children frequently hearing “Cynics do not contribute; skeptics do not create; doubters do not achieve.” Bryant explicitly located the family in “the working class — a distinction,” insisting “we do not belong to a family of geniuses” and that “each of us must pay the price of hard work.” In Gordon and Marjorie’s own household, dinner was “sacrosanct,” and the two “created an atmosphere of stability and love… as much by how they interacted with each other as by what they expressed verbally.” The book frames marriage as partnership and ballast — Marjorie as co-protagonist, “a companion and an equal” — which connects to the broader theme that family is the highest priority (Kyle cross-links it to How Will You Measure Your Life).

Where this appears

• Gordon B. Hinckley — Go Forward With Faith — the Hinckley family ethos (working-class virtue, positive outlook, sacrosanct dinners) and marriage-as-partnership thread; tagged #families.