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.
I don’t care about my character here on earth.I don’t care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
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.
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
Some would have us believe that God is present everywhere. It is not so
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.
I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom…I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually.
Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.
A lawyer’s duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy
God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.