Brigham Young Quotes - Page 10

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• 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.

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  Brother, Jesus, Father

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.51

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• The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

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  Pyramids, People, Heaven

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• My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.

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  Faith, Thinking, Pigs

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• My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.

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  People, History, May

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• This intelligence must endure . . . . The glory and intelligence that God has prepared for the faithful, no man knoweth. Should not this fill every heart with peace and joy - that there is no end to the progress of knowledge?

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  Heart, Men, Joy

  Brigham Young (1860). “Journal of Discourses”

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• Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord, for if we do, we endanger our salvation.

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  Strange, Lord, Salvation

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.267

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• Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them day by day in their progress to eternal happiness; for this is the privilege of the faithful.

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  Jesus, People, Faithful

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”

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• Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.

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  Thinking, People, Truth Is

  Brigham Young (1860). “Journal of Discourses”, p.55

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• If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick.

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  Light, People, World

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• If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."

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  Thinking, Games, Evil

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• See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

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  Education, Mother, Children

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.9

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• Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

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  Fighting, Warfare, Difficulty

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• We are doing well, notwithstanding all our failings and weaknesses; but the Lord would like to have us a little more diligent; he would like us to cleave a little more closely to the things of his kingdom, have more of his Spirit, and know more of him and of one another, that complete and perfect confidence can be restored.

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  Perfect, Weakness, Littles

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.112

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• This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth

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  Wife, Waiting, Doctrine

  Journal of Discourses, 4:56, September 21, 1856.

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• I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Saint, Doctrine

  Deseret News: Semi-Weekly, 1, June 30, 1874.

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• In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there never would be a jar in the camp. And I defy the man to come forward that ever led so large a people in such difficult and trying circumstances, in so much peace, as I have led this people during this campaign, with the help of God and my brethren.

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  Men, Names, Israel

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• Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

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  Survival, Scarcity, Preparedness

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• What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.

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  Death, Doe, Body

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• The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not know who they were, unless His wives and children; but at any rate they filled the Temple, and how many there were who could not get into the Temple I cannot say. This is the account given by Isaiah, whether he told the truth or not I leave every body to judge for himself.

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  Children, Wife, Judging

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• If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.

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  Law, Wife, Judging

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.361

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• A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young.

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  Husband, Years, Talking

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• Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

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  Girl, Husband, Men

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• The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout all Christendom, and which has been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious.

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  Christian, Religious, Roots

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.128

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• Some, in their curiosity, will say, "But you Mormons have another Bible! Do you believe in the Old and New Testaments?" I answer we do believe in the Old and New Testaments, and we have also another book, called the Book of Mormon. What are the doctrines of the Book of Mormon? The same as those of the Bible.

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  Believe, Book, Curiosity

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness

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  Christian, Ocean, Blow

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”, p.73

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