Brigham Young Quotes - Page 6

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• I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.

  Brigham Young

  Thinking, Joseph Smith, Prophet

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• There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.

  Brigham Young

  Heaven, Hell, Music Is

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• Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave? No; but they are now wasting away the black race by thousands.... Treat the slaves kindly and let them live, for Ham must be the servant of servants until the curse is removed. Can you destroy the decrees of the Almighty? You cannot. Yet our Christian brethren think that they are going to overthrow the sentence of the Almighty upon the seed of Ham. They cannot do that, though they may kill them by thousands and tens of thousands.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Struggle, Thinking

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• Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman Empire... Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a hold sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Men, Order

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• A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another.

  Brigham Young

  Taken, Men, Wife

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• For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent.

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  Race, Black, Abuse

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

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• I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

  Brigham Young

  Law, Want, Masters

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.364

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• To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

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  Men, Mind Your Own Business, Duty

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.107

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• Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?

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  Brother, Love You, Men

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

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• I expect, if I am faithful with yourselves, that I shall see the time with yourselves that we shall know how to prepare to organize an earth like this - know how to people that earth, how to redeem it, how to sanctify it, and how to glorify it, with those who live upon it who will hearken to our counsels. The Father and the Son have attained to this point already; I am on the way and so are you, and every faithful servant of God.

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  Father, Son, Servant Of God

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• To be damned is to be banished from, or be deprived of living in the presence of the Father and the Son. Who will live with him? They [who] will come up and inherit the highest glory that is prepared for the faithful.

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  Father, Son, Faithful

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.271

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• God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.

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  Progress, World, Dominion

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers.

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  Kings, Father, Earth

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• Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

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  Hair, Gold, Fields

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.219

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• If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

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  Lying, Men, Names

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.275

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• All that the Lord requires of us is strict obedience to the laws of life. All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people is strict obedience to our own covenants that we have made with our God, and that is to serve him with an undivided heart.

  Brigham Young

  Heart, Sacrifice, Law

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• I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them. The wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbid this principle's being in full force, but the time will come when the law of God will be in full force.

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  Ignorance, Men, Blood

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

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• A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

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  Law, People, Duty

  Brigham Young (1980). “The Journal of Brigham: Brigham Young's Own Story in His Own Words”, p.68, Cedar Fort

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• Lord, here am I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the earth, or that ever goes on the earth.

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  Daughter, Son, Goes On

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• I expect to see the day when the Elders of Israel will protect and sustain civil and religious liberty and every Constitutional right bequeathed to us by our fathers, and spread these rights abroad in connection with the Gospel for the salvation of all nations. I shall see this whether I live or die.

  Brigham Young

  Religious, Father, Rights

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• This is loving your neighbour as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it.

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  Blood, Order, Loving You

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

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• I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

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  Character, Thinking, People

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• All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of God write upon it what He pleases. When He writes, I will read; but if I read before He writes, I am very likely to be wrong

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  Writing, Feelings, Paper

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• I want to say to every man, the Constitution of the United States, as formed by our fathers, was dictated, was revealed, was put into their hearts by the Almighty, who sits enthroned in the midst of the heavens; although unknown to them, it was dictated by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and I tell you in the name of Jesus Christ, it is as good as I could ask for.

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  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• The man or woman who lives worthily now is in a state of salvation.

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  Life, Men, He Man

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.6

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