If you don’t feel like praying, pray until you do!
They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers.
The government of heaven, if wickedly administered, would become one of the worst governments upon the face of the earth. No matter how good a government is, unless it is administered by righteous men, an evil government will be made of it.
God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist.
I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I can with you; and it is no particular concern of mine whether you believe with me or not.
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.
This is loving your neighbour as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it.
God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.
The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.
If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.
If you love the truth, you can remember it.
It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.
At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.
I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.
We need to learn, practice, study, know, and understand how angels live with each other. When this community comes to the point to be perfectly honest and upright, you will never find a poor person; none will lack, all will have sufficient.
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.
One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one – to multiply and replenish the earth.
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.
What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.
Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.