Brigham Young Quotes and Sayings
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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.”
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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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