Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell! — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The government of heaven, if wickedly administered, would become one of the worst governments upon the face of the earth. No matter… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
'Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Prepare yourselves for two weeks from tomorrow; and I will tell you now, that if you will tarry with your husbands, after… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The Second Way in which a wife can be separated from her husband, while he continues to be faithful to his God… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Some of you may ask, ?Is there a single ordinance to be dispensed with? Is there one of the commandments that God… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Any man having one drop of the seed of Cane in him Cannot hold the priesthood ... I will say it now… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right;… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven.… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy. Others attain unto a glory and may… — Brigham Young Copy Share
It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him. — Brigham Young Copy Share
After men have got their exaltations and their crowns--have become Gods, even the sons of God--are made Kings of kings and Lords of lords,… — Brigham Young Copy Share
“If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.” — Brigham Young Copy Share
I expect, if I am faithful with yourselves, that I shall see the time with yourselves that we shall know how to prepare to… — Brigham Young Copy Share
“Parties in our Government have no better idea than to think the Republic stands all the firmer upon opposition; but I say that it… — Brigham Young Copy Share
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters. — Brigham Young Copy Share
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. — Brigham Young Copy Share
I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet. — Brigham Young Copy Share
Our faith is concentrated in the Son of God, and through him in the Father; and the Holy Ghost is their minister to bring… — Brigham Young Copy Share
How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the… — Brigham Young Copy Share
Infringe upon the rights of no one. Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise. Take no wood, nor anything else… — Brigham Young Copy Share
All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power… — Brigham Young Copy Share
