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 More Quotes by Brigham Young More Quotes From Brigham Young 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. Brigham Young study pyramids law The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven. Brigham Young pyramids heaven people The gifts of the Gospel are given to strengthen the faith of the believer. Brigham Young believer given There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity. Brigham Young earth calling men People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat’s eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire. Brigham Young eye men children 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 sacrifice law heart 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. Brigham Young truth-is people thinking If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick. Brigham Young light people world See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning. Brigham Young mother education children The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity. Brigham Young land done want Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power. Brigham Young devil weakness flesh Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. Brigham Young pursuit serious pyramids 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 faithful father son 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 kings earth father 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 heart joy men I expect, if I am faithful with yourselves, that I shall see the time with yourselves that we shall know how to prepare to organize an earth like this - know how to people that earth, how to redeem it, how to sanctify it, and how to glorify it, with those who live upon it who will hearken to our counsels. The Father and the Son have attained to this point already; I am on the way and so are you, and every faithful servant of God. Brigham Young servant-of-god father son Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them day by day in their progress to eternal happiness; for this is the privilege of the faithful. Brigham Young faithful people jesus 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 prayer morning children The Constitution and laws of the United States resemble a theocracy more closely than any government now on the earth, or that ever has been, so far as we know, except the government of the children of Israel to the time when they elected a king. Brigham Young government kings children Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin. Brigham Young sin prayer men
