BRIGHAM YOUNG QUOTES

Mormon religious leader (1801-1877)

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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.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Tags: religion

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I have no objection to any man coming here, but I will have nothing to do with men who will abuse me at midnight and at noon day. Our difficulties and persecutions have always arisen from men right in our midst.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

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Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

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If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

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If the Latter-day Saints will walk up to their privileges, and exercise faith in the name of Jesus Christ, and live in the enjoyment of the fullness of the Holy Ghost constantly day by day, there is nothing on the face of the earth that they could ask for, that would not be given to them. The Lord is waiting to be very gracious unto this people, and to pour out upon them riches, honor, glory, and power, even that they may possess all things according to the promises He has made through His apostles and prophets.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

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Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Tags: religion

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When a man is ordained an apostle, he is ordained to every calling pertaining to the priesthood, a man on the earth can hold; but when he is ordained a high priest, he is ordained a priest after the order of Melchisedek; it is then his right to officiate in all the offices below him.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

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Long ago mama Eve, our good old mother Eve, partook of the forbidden fruit, and this made a slave of her. Adam hated very much to have her taken out of the garden of Eden, and now our old daddy says I believe I will eat of the fruit and become a slave too. This was the first introduction of slavery upon this earth; and there has been not a son or daughter of Adam from that day to this but what were slaves in the true sense of the word. That slavery will continue, until there is a people raised up upon the face of the earth who will contend for righteous principles, who will not only believe in but operate, with every power and faculty given to them to help to establish the kingdom of God, to overcome the devil, and drive him from the earth, then will this curse be removed.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Tags: slavery

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My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Tags: obedience

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What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Tags: duty

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Why was Joseph Smith persecuted? Why was he hunted from neighborhood to neighborhood, from city to city, and from State to State, and at last suffered death? Because he received revelations from the Father, from the Son, and was ministered to by holy angels, and published to the world the direct will of the Lord concerning his children on the earth.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Tags: Joseph Smith

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We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Tags: children

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I would rather hear men tell their own experience, and testify that Joseph was a Prophet of the Lord, and that the Book of Mormon, the Bible, and other revelations of God, are true; that they know it by the gift and power of God; that they have conversed with angels, have had the power of the Holy Ghost upon them, giving them visions and revelations, than hear any other kind of preaching that ever saluted my ears. If I could command the language and eloquence of the angels of God, I would tell you why, but the eloquence of angels never can convince any person that God lives, and makes truth the habitation of his throne, independent of that eloquence being clothed with the power of the Holy Ghost; in the absence of this, it would be a combination of useless sounds.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

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Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Tags: truth

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Tags: honesty

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I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

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Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them, you would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the kingdom of God. I would at once do so in such a case; and under such circumstances, I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

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Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Tags: sin

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If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

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The apostleship is the highest authority that can be imposed upon man upon the earth.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Tags: authority

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