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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Brigham Young

Wisdom, Knowledge, Light

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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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Growing Up, Father, Son

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

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The best remedy for anger is delay.

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Anger, Delay, Remedy

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You might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but would not convert them. You might read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, and prove every iota that you advance, and that alone would have no converting influence upon the people. Nothing short of a testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost would bring light and knowledge to them -- bring them in their hearts to repentance. Nothing short of that would ever do.

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Heart, Light, People

Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”, p.327

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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.

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Morning, Prayer, Children

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... I believe the Father came down from heaven, as the apostles said he did, and begat the Saviour of the world; for he is the ONLY-begotten of the Father, which could not be if the Father did not actually beget him in person.... I believe the Father came down in His tabernacle and begat Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Father, Believe

Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.238

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Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

Brigham Young

Education, Daughter, Mother

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Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and organize this world. He is Michael, the Archangel, the Ancient of Days! about whom holy men have written and spoken -- He is our Father, and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do. Every man upon the earth, professing Christians or non professing, must hear it, and will know it sooner or later.

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Christian, Father, Men

Brigham Young (1977). “Journal of Discourses”, p.50, Рипол Классик

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What a learned idea! 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. Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation

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Brother, Jesus, Father

Brigham Young (1977). “Journal of Discourses”, p.51, Рипол Классик

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Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

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Mind, Fit, Should

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Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!

Brigham Young

Sweet, Children, Teaching

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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

Fall, Wish, Bread

Brigham Young (1980). “The Journal of Brigham: Brigham Young's Own Story in His Own Words”, p.69, Cedar Fort

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Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.

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Law, Pyramids, Study

Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.132

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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

People, Perfect, Religion

Attributed to Brigham Young in "The Life Story of Brigham Young" by Leah D. Widtsoe, Susa Young Gates, 1930.

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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.

Brigham Young

Father, Men, Flesh

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I wanted to thunder and roar out the Gospel to all nations. It burned in my bones like fire pent up... Nothing would satisfy me but to cry abroad in the world, what the Lord was doing in the latter days.

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Fire, World, Cry

Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.313

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Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fathers. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized

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Father, Moon, Thinking

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If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?

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Real, Bread, Scarcity

Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.68

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The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the [dog] under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death.

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Dog, Men, Disease And Death

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The time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law, for it is one of the laws of that kingdom where our Father dwells, that if a man was found guilty of adultery, he must have his blood shed, and that is near at hand. But now I say, in the name of the Lord, that if this people will sin no more, but faithfully live their religion, their sins will be forgiven them without taking life

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Father, Men, Blood

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

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... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.

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Long, Envy, Funeral

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Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

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Father, House, Departed

Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”

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My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every man and woman will be put in possession of the Holy Ghost. . . . They will know things that are, that will be, and that have been. They will understand things in heaven, things on the earth, and things under the earth, things of time, and things of eternity, according to their several callings and capacities.

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Jesus, Teaching, Men

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If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.

Brigham Young

Wise, Men, Wish

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Born: June 1, 1801
Died: August 29, 1877
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