Top 100 Brigham Quotes
#1. It is enough. This is the right place." Brigham Young uttered those words when his wagon reached the mouth of Emigration Canyon and he gazed out at this valley.
Andrew Hunt
#3. In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said my brother had been murdered by du Pont. And it just infuriated me to just no end. And I think I destroyed everything in my office.
Mark Schultz
#4. I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham Young sending out missions to the Indians in 1855.
David Roberts
#5. The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.
Paul D. Boyer
#6. Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.
Neal A. Maxwell
#7. Mitt Romney is a true Mormon. John Edwards and Bill Clinton are not real Mormons. It was not 'Brigham Young' they were chanting. It was 'Bring 'em young.'
Evan Sayet
#8. Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.
Cole Younger
#9. Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.
Lynne Cheney
#10. You go back and tell Brigham Young that I'll give up the Lord's money when he sends me a receipt signed by the Lord, and no sooner.
Samuel Brannan
#11. Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young
Susa Young Gates
#12. I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.
Jason Chaffetz
#13. Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.
Keith Henson
#14. It is a glorious privilege to be attending this, the greatest university in all the world ... take a good look and carefully analyze, and when you take the important points and sum them up, you come out with this final thought: Brigham Young University is the greatest university in the world.
Spencer W. Kimball
#15. Judith Brigham expected her daughter to remain a spinster the rest of her life. In the more pungent phraseology of her soon-to-be stepfather, "Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match." He
Stephen King
#16. If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)
Brandon Sanderson
#17. I suppose my greatest disappointment has been realizing my father, like Joseph and Brigham before him, tried to shroud his passions in the mantle of religion. He used God to defend his adultery.
Ann Eliza Young, page 253
David Ebershoff
#18. Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
George Bernard Shaw
#19. Yes, President Young did teach that Adam was the father of our spirits, and all the related things that the cultists ascribe to him. This [i.e., Brigham Young's teaching on Adam], however, is not true. He expressed views that are out of harmony with the gospel.
Bruce R. McConkie
#20. My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation Albanian, and his parents lived in Southey and grew up in downtown Boston. My parents are complete opposites.
Eliza Dushku
#21. How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God - ...
Brigham Young
#22. If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.
Brigham Young
#23. Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.
Brigham Young
#24. If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)
Brigham Young
#25. Instead of preparing to die, prepare to live in the midst of all the exaltations of the Gods
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#26. If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?
Brigham Young
#27. It is our duty to improve upon every blessing the Lord gives to us.
Brigham Young
#29. This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.
Brigham Young
#30. Which would you part with first
your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?
Brigham Young
#31. Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
Brigham Young
#32. If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders into great difficulties
Brigham Young
#33. Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.
Brigham Young
#34. Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
Brigham Young
#35. When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy
Brigham Young
#36. What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.
Brigham Young
#37. 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.
Brigham Young
#38. The signers of the Declaration of Independence and the framers of the Constitution were inspired from on high to do that work.
Brigham Young
#39. Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.
Brigham Young
#41. 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.
Brigham Young
#42. If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
Brigham Young
#43. Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Brigham Young
#44. Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.
Brigham Young
#45. God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.
Brigham Young
#46. Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Brigham Young
#47. 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 ...
Brigham Young
#48. The introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.
Brigham Young
#49. There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.
Brigham Young
#50. He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.
Brigham Young
#51. 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.
Brigham Young
#52. The gifts of the Gospel are given to strengthen the faith of the believer.
Brigham Young
#53. This intelligence must endure ... The glory and intelligence that God has prepared for the faithful, no man knoweth. Should not this fill every heart with peace and joy - that there is no end to the progress of knowledge?
Brigham Young
#54. There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it ...
Brigham Young
#55. When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.
Brigham Young
#56. The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity.
Brigham Young
#57. 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.
Brigham Young
#59. 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.
Brigham Young
#60. I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.
Brigham Young
#61. My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.
Brigham Young
#62. Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.
Brigham Young
#63. Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing
Brigham Young
#64. We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth ... Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers.
Brigham Young
#65. 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
#66. If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."
Brigham Young
#67. It is the duty of a Saint of God to gain all the influence he can on this earth, and to use every particle of that influence to do good.
Brigham Young
#68. A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
Brigham Young
#69. Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.
Brigham Young
#70. He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ
Brigham Young
#71. Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
Brigham Young
#72. I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world ... and when I again receive my body, I shall ... still continue my researches
Brigham Young
#73. To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.
Brigham Young
#74. The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness
Brigham Young
#75. 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.
Brigham Young
#76. This is pretty hard on the Elders, is it not? If they could remember one thousandth part of that which they have heard, it would have sanctified them years and years ago; but it goes in at one ear and out at the other
it is like the weaver's shuttle passing through the web.
Brigham Young
#77. It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.
Brigham Young
#78. 'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.
Brigham Young
#79. 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.
Brigham Young
#80. My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.
Brigham Young
#81. Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.
Brigham Young
#82. [Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.
Brigham Young
#83. How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord witnessing unto our spirit that we are His, that we love Him, and that He loves us. It is by the spirit of revelation we know this.
Brigham Young
#84. Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail over evil.
Brigham Young
#85. Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.
Brigham Young
#86. When Joseph received the revelation that we have in our possession concerning the [baptism of the] dead, the subject was opened to him, not in full but in part ... Then women were baptized for men and men for women, & c.
Brigham Young
#87. 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.
Brigham Young
#88. We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.
Brigham Young
#89. The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.
Brigham Young
#90. Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
Brigham Young
#91. Some would have us believe that God is present everywhere. It is not so
Brigham Young
#92. Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
Brigham Young
#93. It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit.
Brigham Young
#94. Finance as taught in universities is generally divided into three areas: (1) financial
management, (2) capital markets, and (3) investments.
Eugene F. Brigham
#96. 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
#97. All that the Lord requires of us is strict obedience to the laws of life. All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people is strict obedience to our own covenants that we have made with our God, and that is to serve him with an undivided heart.
Brigham Young
#98. To be damned is to be banished from, or be deprived of living in the presence of the Father and the Son. Who will live with him? They [who] will come up and inherit the highest glory that is prepared for the faithful.
Brigham Young
#99. 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.
Brigham Young
#100. I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.
Brigham Young
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