Quotes from Brigham Young
Learn to be good for something.
- Brigham Young
It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.
- Brigham Young
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
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
- Brigham Young
Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
- Brigham Young
Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
- Brigham Young
Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
- Brigham Young
Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?
- Brigham Young
The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.
- Brigham Young
Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test
- Brigham Young
The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.
- Brigham Young
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