This entire people have become as a city upon a hill which cannot
be hid. Sometimes we take offense when one who is a member of the Church
is involved in a crime and the public press is quick to say that he is
a Mormon. We comment among ourselves that if he had been a member of
any other church, no mention would have been made of it.
Yet, is not this very practice an indirect compliment to our people? The world
expects something better of us, and when one of our number falters, the press
is quick to note it. We have, indeed, become as a city upon a hill for
the world to see. If we are to be that which the Lord would have us be, we
must indeed become 'a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that [we] should shew forth the praises of him who hath called [us] out of darkness into his marvelous light.' (1 Pet. 2:9.)
Gordon B. Hinckley, "A City upon a Hill," Ensign, July 1990, 4
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