Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children by the million, and glory, and riches, and power, and dominion, and kingdom after kingdom, and reign triumphantly.

— Brigham Young

Brigham Young Quotes

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

Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in 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

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

— Brigham Young

Lord, here am I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the earth, or that ever goes on the earth.

— Brigham Young

Some would have us believe that God is present everywhere. It is not so.

— Brigham Young

Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.

— Brigham Young

Every day is judgment day-use it.

— Brigham Young

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

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

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

Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord, for if we do, we endanger our salvation.

— Brigham Young

The apostates think that everybody is wrong but themselves.

— Brigham Young

My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.

— Brigham Young

My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.

— Brigham Young

The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same in subjection to Jesus Christ; this is the greatest mystery we have to learn while in these tabernacles of clay.

— Brigham Young

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

— Brigham Young

I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.

— Brigham Young

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

— Brigham Young

The only vulnerable place in our armor is where we ourselves leave it exposed, because God has armed us at all points. He has made us impervious to outside attacks. But when we boil inside, destruction waits upon us.

— Brigham Young, Jr.
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