Polygamy Quotes
Polygamy Quote of the day
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy
This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.
Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium.
Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".
If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.
It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.
The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law.
It was a very limited practice; carefully safeguarded. In 1890, that practice was discontinued.
'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.
The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.
Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists.
I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners.
I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.
Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.
If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.
The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions.
Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.
Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.
I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible goal, a journey that lasted a long time: how to love a God who hurts you.
May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.
Polygamy simply says, “You are not enough.
If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*
Then you shouldn’t be worried about him being with me. You can have him back when I’m done with him.
One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll hate you.