Parley P. Pratt Quotes

• I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Law, Giving, Justice

  Parley P. Pratt (2008). “Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology”, p.11, Cedar Fort

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• The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Intellectual, Ghost, Holy

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• It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Thanksgiving, Daughter, Mother

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• Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Character, Eye, Men

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• Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Midnight, Dungeons, Village

  Parley P. Pratt (2008). “Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology”, p.11, Cedar Fort

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• Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs!
  Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things!
  Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine:
  The past, the present, and the future time.
  Thy reminiscences transport the soul
  To memory?s Paradise?its future goal.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Dream, Sweet, Memories

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