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• 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.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Rights, Church

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• If you don't feel like praying, pray until you do!

  Brigham Young

  Praying, Feels, Ifs

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• I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.

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  Father, Hands, Heaven

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• 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.

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  Strong, Kindness, Compassion

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• It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

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  People, Care, Imbeciles

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• We went west willingly--because we had to.

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  West

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• It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.

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  Exaltation, Different, Finals

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.274

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• 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.

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  Angel, Son, Law

  "Journal of Discourses 9:102", January 5, 1860.

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• Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.

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  Wife, Feelings, Promise

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.266

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• Every organization of our government, the best government in the world, is crumbling to pieces. Those who have it in their hands are the ones who are destroying it. How long will it be before the words of the prophet Joseph will be fulfilled? He said if the Constitution of the United States were saved at all it must be done by this people. It will not be many years before these words come to pass.

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  Hands, Years, Organization

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• As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.

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  Children, Wife, Want

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• When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children together, bow down before the Lord, ask him to forgive your sins, and protect you through the day, to preserve you from temptation and all evil, to guide your steps aright.

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  Morning, Prayer, Children

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• I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

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  Hate, Government, Land

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• The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.

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  Men, Everyday, Desire

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• I will tell you whom to vote for: We will vote for the principles of civil and religious liberty, the man who knows the most and who has the best heart and brain for a statesman; and we do not care a farthing whether he is a Whig, a Democrat, a Barnburner, a Republican, or a New Light or anything else.

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  Religious, Heart, Men

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• If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.

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  Suffering, May, Want

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.108

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• Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

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  Practice, Wish, Righteousness

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• I wanted to thunder and roar out the Gospel to all nations. It burned in my bones like fire pent up... Nothing would satisfy me but to cry abroad in the world, what the Lord was doing in the latter days.

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  Fire, World, Cry

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.313

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• Love the giver more than the gift.

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  Love, Christmas, Meaningful

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• You might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but would not convert them. You might read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, and prove every iota that you advance, and that alone would have no converting influence upon the people. Nothing short of a testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost would bring light and knowledge to them -- bring them in their hearts to repentance. Nothing short of that would ever do.

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  Heart, Light, People

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”, p.327

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

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  Inspirational, Commitment, Causes

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• Any man having one drop of the seed of Cane in him Cannot hold the priesthood ... I will say it now in the name of Jesus Christ. I know it is true & they know it. The Negro cannot hold one particle of Government ... if any man mingles his seed with the seed of Cane the only way he Could get rid of it or have salvation would be to Come forward & have his head Cut off & spill his Blood upon the ground. It would also take the life of his Children.

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  Jesus, Children, Cutting

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• I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I can with you; and it is no particular concern of mine whether you believe with me or not.

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  Believe, Men, Feelings

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• Honest hearts produce honest actions.

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  Honesty, Heart, Ethics

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

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  Religious, Self Reliance, Gold

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.250

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