Quotes from John Taylor

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.

It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.

A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.

Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.

The Lord is our God, our judge, and our king, and He shall reign over us.

If we take good care of one another, God will take care of us.

If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth

I do not care how learned a man may be, or how extensively he may have traveled; I do not care what his talent, intellect or genius may be, at what college he may have studied, how comprehensive his views or what his judgment may be on other matters, he cannot understand certain things without the Spirit of God, and that necessarily introduces the principle . . . of revelation.

Show and prove to the world, to angels and to God, that you are on the side of truth and right, of honesty, purity and integrity, and that you are for God in His kingdom.

If I cannot have a religion that will lead me to God, and place me en rapport with him, and unfold to my mind the principles of immortality and eternal life, I want nothing to do with it.

I rejoice that we have a Savior who had the goodness to come forth and redeem us and I rejoice that we have a Savior that yet looks forward to the redemption of the world.

God's plan in relation to man was that he should fall, and having fallen and obtained a knowledge of good and evil, (which knowledge he could not have obtained without placing himself in that position), then it became necessary that he should know concerning the atonement and redemption which should be brought about through the mediation of Jesus Christ.

There were men in those dark ages who could commune with God, and who, by the power of faith, could draw aside the curtain of eternity and gaze upon the face of God, have the ministering of angels, and unfold the future destinies of the world. If those were dark ages, I pray God to give me a little darkness.

It was by and through the power of God, that the fathers of this country framed the Declaration of Independence, and also that great palladium of human rights, the Constitution of the United States.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

like a bad case of measles (the way events fall out), but not a good case of wine (that is a homonym).

Lewd did I live & evil did I dwel