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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.
The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.
Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent.
If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus.
Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.
The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.
There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.
What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.
Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.
I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.
Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test
My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy
All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.
God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.
The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.
I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.
God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist
Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.
I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.
He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
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.
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.
All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.
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.
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.
When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.
Lord, here am I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the earth, or that ever goes on the earth.
Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven.
Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.