If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
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.
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?
Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.
Every organization of our government, the best government in the world, is crumbling to pieces. Those who have it in their hands are the ones who are destroying it. How long will it be before the words of the prophet Joseph will be fulfilled? He said if the Constitution of the United States were saved at all it must be done by this people. It will not be many years before these words come to pass.
I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.
Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.
I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by Him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self-security... Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children together, bow down before the Lord, ask him to forgive your sins, and protect you through the day, to preserve you from temptation and all evil, to guide your steps aright.
Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!
If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.
It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.
No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.
Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
We went west willingly--because we had to.
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
I will tell you whom to vote for: We will vote for the principles of civil and religious liberty, the man who knows the most and who has the best heart and brain for a statesman; and we do not care a farthing whether he is a Whig, a Democrat, a Barnburner, a Republican, or a New Light or anything else.
The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God
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