John Taylor Quotes

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• Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and eternity.

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  Life, Trust, Time

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• If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.

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  Prayer, Work, Men

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• If we take good care of one another, God will take care of us.

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  Care, Take Care, Gods Will

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• You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God, and (said he) God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings, and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God.

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  Heart, Men, Inheritance

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• A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

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  Writing, Men, Doctors

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• If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.

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  Missionary, Calling, Done

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• A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.

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  Men, Receiving, Dignity

  John Taylor (2018). “An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”, p.130, BoD – Books on Demand

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• We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.

  John Taylor

  Honesty, Believe, Exercise

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• Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.

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  Peace, Over You, Religion

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• Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

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  Men, Missionary, Duty

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• I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I have changed my mind on that subject. Now I think I would, if I were the Lord, because it purges out the meanness and corruption that stick around the saints, like flies around molasses.

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  Change, Thinking, People

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• In fact he enables us not by making us supernaturally strong, but by opening our eyes. The Holy Spirit is that power which opens eyes that are closed, hearts that are unaware and minds that shrink from too much reality.

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  Strong, Eye, Heart

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• I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth

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  Earth

  Brigham Henry Roberts, John Taylor (1892). “The Life of John Taylor: Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints”

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• We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief.

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  Heart, Belief, Action

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”

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• If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power also; and a government becomes as certainly aristocratical, by a monopoly of wealth, as by a monopoly of arms. A minority, obtaining a majority of wealth or arms in any mode, becomes the government.

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  Government, Hands, Majority

  John Taylor (2013). “An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States”, p.255, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

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  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankfulness

  John Taylor (1872). “Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet. [Reprints of 21 separately issued pieces.] Edited by C. Hindley. L.P.”

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• It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.

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  Men, Perfect, Suffering

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• Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.

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  Work, Zion, Causes

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• There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.

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  Ocean, Lakes, Shipping

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• The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.

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  Men, Needs, Tails

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• Tis a mad world, my masters.

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  Mad, World, Mental Illness

  John Taylor (1999). “Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet”, Sutton Pub Limited

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• By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.

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  Teacher, Children, College

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• I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting, and those who will enter into my glory must obey the conditions thereof; Even so Amen.

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  Law, Glory, Amen

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• In every principle presented to us, our first inquiry should be, "Is it true?" "Does it emanate from God?" If he is its Author it can be sustained just as much as any other truth in natural philosophy; if false it should be opposed and exposed just as much as any other error.

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  Truth, Philosophy, Errors

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• If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.

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  Mean, Government, Unions

  John Taylor (1820). “Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated”, p.83

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