“None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine. I think I understand them thoroughly, and it is unfortunate that the reporting may not make this clear. I hope you will never look to the public press as the authority on the doctrines of the Church.”

Gordon B. Hinckley – 4 October 1997, General Conference Reports “Drawing Nearer to the Lord” (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1997).