Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.
Which would you part with first – your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?
This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth.
A lawyer’s duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.
The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.
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.
Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
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.
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.
If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.
No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood.
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.
I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever.
The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.
My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.
I do not want “Mormonism” to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.
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.
When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it.