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 love the truth, you can remember it.
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
He coached them from the bed and said, 'I don't care if we win a game this year; I want you to stay spiritually pure, glorify God and have fun,' ... And that's coming from a very competitive guy.
Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
I honor and revere the name of Joseph Smith. I delight to hear it; I love it. I love his doctrine. I feel like shouting Hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet whom the Lord raised up. I am bold to say that, Jesus Christ excepted, no better man ever lived or does live upon this earth. I am his witness.
If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!
I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.
Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.
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.
It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.
Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.