Brigham Young Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
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“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”
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“All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.”
-- Brigham YoungSource : Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.150
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“Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.”
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“There is neither man or woman in this Church who is not on a mission. That mission will last as long as they live, and it is to do good, to promote righteousness, to teach the principles of truth, and to prevail upon themselves and everybody around them to live those principles that they may obtain eternal life”
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“Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he will perhaps be saved in the Celestial kingdom; but when he gets there he will not find himself in possession of any wife at all. He has had a talent that he has hid up. He will come forward and say, 'Here is that which thou gavest me, I have not wasted it, and here is the one talent,' and he will not enjoy it but it will be taken and given to those who have improved the talents they received, and he will find himself without any wife, and he will remain single forever and ever.”
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“The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.”
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“Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.”
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“Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.”
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“Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.”
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“If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?”
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“There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.”
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“Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?”
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“Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.”
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“The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.”
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“The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy”
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“What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation”
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“True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.”
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“We went west willingly--because we had to.”
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“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.”
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“Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.”
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“[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.”
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“Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. They have kept their first estate far enough to preserve themselves in the Priesthood. They did not so violate the law of the Priesthood and condemn themselves to the sin against the Holy Ghost as to be finally lost. They are not crowned with the celestial ones. They are persons who have lived upon an earth, but did not magnify the Priesthood in that high degree that many others have done who have become Gods, even the sons of God.”
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“Honest hearts produce honest actions.”
-- Brigham YoungSource : Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”
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“My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every man and woman will be put in possession of the Holy Ghost. . . . They will know things that are, that will be, and that have been. They will understand things in heaven, things on the earth, and things under the earth, things of time, and things of eternity, according to their several callings and capacities.”
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“You might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but would not convert them. You might read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, and prove every iota that you advance, and that alone would have no converting influence upon the people. Nothing short of a testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost would bring light and knowledge to them -- bring them in their hearts to repentance. Nothing short of that would ever do.”
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“If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.”
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“A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.”
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“There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . .”
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