Brigham Young Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God

  Brigham Young

  Growing Up, Father, Son

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

• You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Blessing, Class

  Journal of Discourses, vol. 7 (p. 290), 1863.

• My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

  Brigham Young

  Lord, Duty, Mankind

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.111

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