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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.

  Brigham Young

  Father, House, Departed

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”

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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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• To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked.

  Brigham Young

  Integrity, Angel, Light

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.240

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• Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

  Brigham Young

  Facts, Clash, Particular

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• If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.

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  Jealous, Joy, Principles

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.33

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• 'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.

  Brigham Young

  Grace, Mormonism, Eternity

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.162

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• They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers

  Brigham Young

  Doers, Eternal Life, Wells

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• I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I can with you; and it is no particular concern of mine whether you believe with me or not.

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  Believe, Men, Feelings

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• I honor and revere the name of Joseph Smith. I delight to hear it; I love it. I love his doctrine. I feel like shouting Hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet whom the Lord raised up. I am bold to say that, Jesus Christ excepted, no better man ever lived or does live upon this earth. I am his witness.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

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• The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

  Brigham Young

  Light, Spirit, Light And Knowledge

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• True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

  Brigham Young

  Motivational, Freedom, Independence

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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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• My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

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  Lord, Duty, Mankind

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.111

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• When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

  Brigham Young

  Fighting, Enemy, Battle

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.325

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• We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

  Brigham Young

  Love Is, Men, Gold

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• Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

  Brigham Young

  Religion, Firsts, Whiskey

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• Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.

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  Giving, Temptation, Enemy

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.113

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• If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.

  Brigham Young

  Criticism, Persons, Within You

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• Every day is judgment day-use it.

  Brigham Young

  Use, Judgment, Judgment Day

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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. I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Justice, Suffering

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• I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Rain

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.222

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• 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.

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  Father, Garden, Eden

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.50

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• Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

  Brigham Young

  Thinking, Silence, May

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• 'Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If we are not admitted until then, we shall never be admitted.

  Brigham Young

  Thinking, Principles, Unions

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.269

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• How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord witnessing unto our spirit that we are His, that we love Him, and that He loves us. It is by the spirit of revelation we know this.

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  Inspiration, Spirit, Lord

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