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1. "Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life." ~ Brigham Young
2. "Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow." ~ Brigham Young
3. "Honest hearts produce honest actions." ~ Brigham Young
4. "It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them." ~ Brigham Young
5. "Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up." ~ Brigham Young
6. "We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do." ~ Brigham Young
7. "A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it." ~ Brigham Young
8. "Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories." ~ Brigham Young
9. "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
10. "I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master." ~ Brigham Young
11. "There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source." ~ Brigham Young
12. "Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community." ~ Brigham Young
13. "Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere." ~ Brigham Young
14. "The biggest labor problem is tomorrow." ~ Brigham Young
15. "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)" ~ Brigham Young
16. "It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil." ~ Brigham Young
17. "To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked." ~ Brigham Young
18. "The inquiry has often been made of us in the course of our history, why we do not contradict such and such statements, "Why do you not confute this or that?" "Why do you not enlighten the people in regard to certain statements which are urged against you, and disabuse the public mind?" . . . As for offering refutations to charges made against us, it would be impossible to keep pace with the thousands of freshly invented falsehoods that the powers spiritual and the powers temporal would produce to feed the credulity of the ignorant masses. Bunyan says that it requires a legion of devils to watch one Christian; it would require a legion of refutations to keep pace with one infernal liar, therefore we say, "lie on, falsify every thing you want to falsify, and say what you please; there is a God in Israel, and if you have not yet learned it, you will learn it."[JD10:105, 109]" ~ Brigham Young
19. "Instead of preparing to die, prepare to live in the midst of all the exaltations of the Gods" ~ Brigham Young
20. "You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation." ~ Brigham Young
21. "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." ~ Brigham Young
22. "Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a Shakespeare and give him a total knowledge of the plan of salvation of God and personal revelation and cleanse him and take a look at the statues he will carve and the murals he will paint and the masterpieves he will produce. Take a handel with his purposeful effort, his superb talent, his earnest desire to properly depict the story, and give him inward vision of the whole true story and revelation, and what a master you will have!" ~ Brigham Young
23. "I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches" ~ Brigham Young
24. "It is our duty to improve upon every blessing the Lord gives to us." ~ Brigham Young
25. "If an Elder shall give us a lecture upon astronomy, chemistry, or geology, our religion embraces it all. It matters not what the subject be, if it tends to improve the mind, exalt the feelings, and enlarge the capacity. The truth that is in all the arts and sciences forms part of our religion. Faith is no more a part of it than any other true principle of philosophy." ~ Brigham Young
26. "Parties in our Government have no better idea than to think the Republic stands all the firmer upon opposition; but I say that it is not so. A republican government consists in letting the people rule by their united voice, without a dissension,--in learning what is for the best, and unitedly doing it. That is true republicanism." ~ Brigham Young
27. "There is not a young man in our community who would not be willing to travel from here to England to be married right, if he understood things as they are; there is not a young woman in our community, who loves the Gospel and wishes its blessings, that would be married in any other way; they would live unmarried until they could be married as they should be, [even] if they lived until they were as old as Sarah before she had Isaac born to her [see Genesis 17:17]. Many of our brethren have married off their children without taking this into consideration, and thinking it a matter of little importance. I wish we all understood this in the light in which heaven understands it." ~ Brigham Young
28. "Now, remember, my brethren, those who go skating, buggy riding or on excursions on the Sabbath day—and there is a great deal of this practiced—are weak in the faith. Gradually, little by little, little by little, the spirit of their religion leaks out of their hearts and their affections, and by and by they begin to see faults in their brethren, faults in the doctrines of the Church, faults in the organization, and at last they leave the Kingdom of God and go to destruction. I really wish you would remember this, and tell it to your neighbors." ~ Brigham Young
29. "The signers of the Declaration of Independence and the framers of the Constitution were inspired from on high to do that work." ~ Brigham Young
30. "I testify that Jesus is the Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of the world; I have obeyed his sayings, and realized his promise, and the knowledge I have of him, the wisdom of this world cannot give, neither can it take away." ~ Brigham Young
31. "This is pretty hard on the Elders, is it not? If they could remember one thousandth part of that which they have heard, it would have sanctified them years and years ago; but it goes in at one ear and out at the other--it is like the weaver's shuttle passing through the web." ~ Brigham Young
32. "We have knowledge, we have the living oracles in our midst, and with all this let me say to the Latter-day Saints that they stand upon slippery places. They do not all fully know the paths they walk in, they do not all perfectly understand their own ways and doings, many do not altogether realize their own weaknesses, do not understand the power of the devil and how liable they are to be decoyed one hair's breadth, to begin with, from the line of truth. They are first drawn by a fine line, in a little time it becomes a cord, it soon increases to a strong rope, and from that to a cable; thus it grows from the size of a spider's web, in comparison.[JD3:222]" ~ Brigham Young
33. "It is the misapplied intelligence God has given us that makes all the mischief on the earth. That intelligence He designed to carry out the purposes of His will, and endowed it with capabilities to grow, spread abroad, accumulate, and endeavor to enjoy greater happiness, glory, and honor, and continue to expand wider and wider, until eternity is comprehended by it; if not applied to this purpose, but to the groveling things of earth, it will be taken away, and given to one who has made better use of this gift of God." ~ Brigham Young
34. "If you don't feel like praying, pray until you do!" ~ Brigham Young
35. "Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular." ~ Brigham Young
36. "[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul." ~ Brigham Young
37. "We went west willingly--because we had to." ~ Brigham Young
38. "We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth, and read good books, although I cannot say that I would recommend the reading of all books, for it is not all books which are good. Read good books, and extract from them wisdom and understanding as much as you possibly can, aided by the Spirit of God. (JD 12:124)" ~ Brigham Young
39. "Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!" ~ Brigham Young
40. "Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God." ~ Brigham Young
41. "It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him." ~ Brigham Young
42. "Mend it, fix it, make do, or do without." ~ Brigham Young
43. "If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up." ~ Brigham Young
44. "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." ~ Brigham Young
45. "If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes." ~ Brigham Young
46. "I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self security. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not." ~ Brigham Young
47. "Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?" ~ Brigham Young
48. "I have a word to say to my sisters. When I reflect upon the duties and responsibilities devolving upon our mothers and sisters, and the influence they wield, I look upon them as the mainspring and soul of our being here. It is true that man is first. Father Adam was placed here as king of the earth, to bring it into subjection. But when Mother Eve came she had a splendid influence over him. A great many have thought it was not very good; I think it was excellent" (Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 199).)." ~ Brigham Young
49. "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." ~ Brigham Young
50. "To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation." ~ Brigham Young
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