Brigham Young Quotes
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When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy...
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... I believe the Father came down from heaven, as the apostles said he did, and begat the Saviour of the world; for he is the ONLY-begotten of the Father, which could not be if the Father did not actually beget him in person.... I believe the Father came down in His tabernacle and begat Jesus Christ.
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You might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but would not convert them. You might read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, and prove every iota that you advance, and that alone would have no converting influence upon the people. Nothing short of a testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost would bring light and knowledge to them -- bring them in their hearts to repentance. Nothing short of that would ever do.
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What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.
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As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.
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He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
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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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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.
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All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.
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The apostates think that everybody is wrong but themselves.
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What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.
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You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there never was and never will be, who turn up their noses at the counsel that is given them from the First Presidency, but who, unless they repent of and refrain from such conduct will eventually go out of the Church and go to hell, every one of them...
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When I look upon the faces of intelligent beings I look upon the image of the God I serve. There are none but what have a certain portion of divinity within them; and though we are clothed with bodies which are in the image of our God, yet this mortality shrinks before that portion of divinity which we inherit from our Father.
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The Constitution and laws of the United States resemble a theocracy more closely than any government now on the earth, or that ever has been, so far as we know, except the government of the children of Israel to the time when they elected a king.
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Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
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Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!
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There is neither man or woman in this Church who is not on a mission. That mission will last as long as they live, and it is to do good, to promote righteousness, to teach the principles of truth, and to prevail upon themselves and everybody around them to live those principles that they may obtain eternal life...
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They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers...
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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-.
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My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.
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My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.
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Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. They have kept their first estate far enough to preserve themselves in the Priesthood. They did not so violate the law of the Priesthood and condemn themselves to the sin against the Holy Ghost as to be finally lost. They are not crowned with the celestial ones. They are persons who have lived upon an earth, but did not magnify the Priesthood in that high degree that many others have done who have become Gods, even the sons of God.
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Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test...
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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.