Brigham Young Quotes

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• If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

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  Hell, About Yourself, Bad Thoughts

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• Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

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  Marriage, Men, Community

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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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  Fool, Rage, Paradox

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• You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

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  Family, Education, Strong Women

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• Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Trials

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.150

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• It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

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  People, Care, Imbeciles

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• Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

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  Praying, Ifs

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• Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

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  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Self Worth

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• 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.

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  Sleep, People, Balance

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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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  Men, Everyday, Desire

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• Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

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  Prayer, Men, Sin

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• The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.

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  Purpose, Becoming, Lord

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential 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 the 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.... 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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  Brother, Heart, Men

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247

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• 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.

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  Men, Self, Lds

  Brigham Young's remarks in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City (January 12, 1862), as quoted in "Journal of Discourses" by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Volume 9, p. 150), 1862.

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• Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

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  Prayer, Potatoes, Milk

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

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  Motivational, Family, Success

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• 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.

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  Father, Men, White Man

  Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 110, 1863.

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• 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.

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  Inspiring, Education, Adversity

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• The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

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  Religious, Self Reliance, Gold

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.250

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• It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.

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  Exaltation, Different, Finals

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.274

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• Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.

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  Men, Talent, Proportion

  Brigham Young (1860). “Journal of Discourses”, p.7

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• Honest hearts produce honest actions.

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  Honesty, Heart, Ethics

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.

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  Father, Men, Flesh

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• He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.

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  Fool, Offense, Greater

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• If you don't feel like praying, pray until you do!

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  Praying, Feels, Ifs

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