Brigham Young Quotes

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.

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

The apostates think that everybody is wrong but themselves.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

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

It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

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

People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat’s eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father

It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit.

Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!

Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

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

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.

If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.

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

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

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

The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.

It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.

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

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.

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

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

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)

It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.

God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist

'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.

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.

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.

Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

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

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.

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