Quotes from Brigham Young

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

I don't care whether the people believe me to be a prophet, seer, or revelator or not - I have been very profitable to this people, and I have seen a good many things, and I have revealed many things.

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.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.

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

Infringe upon the rights of no one. Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise. Take no wood, nor anything else but what belongs to you - and if you find anything that is not your own, do not hide it away, but report it, that the owner may be found.