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• Love the giver more than the gift.

  Brigham Young

  Love, Christmas, Meaningful

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• I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administrators who trample the Constitution and just laws under their feet.

  Brigham Young

  Government, Law, Voice

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”, p.232

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• Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' It is the only popular religion there.

  Brigham Young

  Believe, Practice, Heaven

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• We went west willingly--because we had to.

  Brigham Young

  West

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• Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.

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  Jesus, Moses, Prophet

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.328

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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.

  Brigham Young

  Taken, Men, Wife

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• Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Mind, Relaxation

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• If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Girl, Boys, Choices

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• I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The whole world will think what an awful thing it is. What an awful thing it would be if the Mormons should just say we believe in marrying brothers and sisters.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Believe, Thinking

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

  Brigham Young

  Prayer, Men, Sin

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• Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

  Brigham Young

  Inspirational, Commitment, Causes

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• Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

  Brigham Young

  Practice, Wish, Righteousness

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• If you love the truth, you can remember it.

  Brigham Young

  Remember, Ifs

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.358

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• 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.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Hands, Heaven

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• If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders into great difficulties

  Brigham Young

  Children, Son, Giving

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.51

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• Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

  Brigham Young

  Glasses, Sea, Sun

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• My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.

  Brigham Young

  Tired, Exercise, Mind

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• No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are

  Brigham Young

  Men, Kingdoms, Juniors

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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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  Intelligent, Exaltation, Crowns

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

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• Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. They have kept their first estate far enough to preserve themselves in the Priesthood. They did not so violate the law of the Priesthood and condemn themselves to the sin against the Holy Ghost as to be finally lost. They are not crowned with the celestial ones. They are persons who have lived upon an earth, but did not magnify the Priesthood in that high degree that many others have done who have become Gods, even the sons of God.

  Brigham Young

  Angel, Son, Law

  "Journal of Discourses 9:102", January 5, 1860.

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• When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Long, Tree

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• In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular... whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.

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  Christian, Men, Years

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• We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in consequence of their transgressions a curse has been inflicted upon them - in the darkness of their skins. We will have intermarriages with them, they marrying our young women, and we taking their young squaws to wife. By these means it is the will of the Lord that the curse of their color shall be removed and they restored to their pristine beauty.

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  Native American, Mean, Color

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• 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 . . .

  Brigham Young

  Men, Blood, Covenant

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

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• 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.

  Brigham Young

  Suffering, May, Want

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.108

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