Quotes from Brigham Young

Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!

Learn to be good for something.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

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.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test

The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

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

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

I don't care whether the people believe me to be a prophet, seer, or revelator or not - I have been very profitable to this people, and I have seen a good many things, and I have revealed many things.

I am a firm believer in slavery.

Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.