Polygamy Quotes - Page 3

• When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Relationship, Wedding

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

  1909 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in consequence of their transgressions a curse has been inflicted upon them - in the darkness of their skins. We will have intermarriages with them, they marrying our young women, and we taking their young squaws to wife. By these means it is the will of the Lord that the curse of their color shall be removed and they restored to their pristine beauty.

  Brigham Young

  Native American, Mean, Color

  9 Copy quote

• You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Wife, Might, Mormonism

  10 Copy quote

• I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The whole world will think what an awful thing it is. What an awful thing it would be if the Mormons should just say we believe in marrying brothers and sisters.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Believe, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow minded, pinch-backed race of man, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They aught to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices.

  George A. Smith

  Men, Race, Air

  9 Copy quote

• Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.

  Brigham Young

  Care, Bishops, Hell

  20 Copy quote

• The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice... all ordinances would be stopped... many men would be made prisoners... I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Writing, Men, Practice

  25 Copy quote

• Says one brother to another, 'Joseph says all covenants are done away, and none are binding but the new covenants; now suppose Joseph should come and say he wanted your wife, what would you say to that? I would tell him to go to hell.' This was the spirit of many in the early days of this Church.

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Brother, Wife, Church

  7 Copy quote

• It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Church, Towers, Kingdoms

  13 Copy quote

• God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and yet I have heard now and then (I am very glad to say that only a low such instances have come under my notice) a brother or a sister say, 'I am a Latter-day Saint, but I do not believe in polygamy.' Oh, what an absurd expression! What an absurd idea! A person might as well say, 'I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, but I do not believe in him.'

  Orson Pratt

  Brother, Jesus, Believe

  16 Copy quote

• Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' It is the only popular religion there.

  Brigham Young

  Believe, Practice, Heaven

  13 Copy quote

• The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Light, Church, Doctrine

  8 Copy quote

• The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not know who they were, unless His wives and children; but at any rate they filled the Temple, and how many there were who could not get into the Temple I cannot say. This is the account given by Isaiah, whether he told the truth or not I leave every body to judge for himself.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Wife, Judging

  7 Copy quote

• A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another.

  Brigham Young

  Taken, Men, Wife

  8 Copy quote

• If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

  George Q. Cannon

  Believe, Command, Has Beens

  15 Copy quote

• If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

  George Q. Cannon

  Crush, People, Earth

  16 Copy quote

• Celestial marriage is for the fullness of the glory of god. It is the crowning glory. A man has no right to one wife unless he is worthy of two.... There is no provision made for those who have had the chance & opperternity and have disregarded that law. Men who disregard that law are in the same situation as if they broke any other law. they are transgressors.

  Francis M. Lyman

  Men, Law, Two

  7 Copy quote

• Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Women, Long

  15 Copy quote

• Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Son, Men, Practice

  22 Copy quote

• The principle of plurality of wives never will be done away.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Wife, Principles, Done

  17 Copy quote

• Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.

  Rick Santorum

  Healthy, Adultery, Traditional

  "Raw Data: Excerpts of Santorum's AP Interview". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy. Others attain unto a glory and may even be permitted to come into the presence of the Father and the Son; but they cannot reign as kings in glory, because they had blessing offered unto them, and they refused to accept them.

  Brigham Young

  Kings, Father, Son

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.269

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her.

  George Q. Cannon

  Rome, Evil, Records

  22 Copy quote

• Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young.

  Brigham Young

  Husband, Years, Talking

  13 Copy quote