Brigham Young
Brigham Young
Brigham Youngwas an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the second President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsfrom 1847 until his death in 1877. He founded Salt Lake City and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young also led the foundings of the precursors to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth1 June 1801
CityWhitingtonham, VT
CountryUnited States of America
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.
If you don't feel like praying, pray until you do!
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Prepare yourselves for two weeks from tomorrow; and I will tell you now, that if you will tarry with your husbands, after I have set you free, you must bow down to it, and submit yourselves to the celestial law. You may go where you please, after two weeks from tomorrow; but, remember, that I will not hear any more of this whining.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self security. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.
[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.
Love the giver more than the gift.