Quotes from Brigham Young

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

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.

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.

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.

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.

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

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.

I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.

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.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

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

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.

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

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-.

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.

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

God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.

Some would have us believe that God is present everywhere. It is not so