Top 160 Brigham Young Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Brigham Young

52. “I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administrators who trample the Constitution and just laws under their feet.”

— Brigham Young

53. “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.”

— Brigham Young

54. “Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.”

— Brigham Young

55. “My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.”

— Brigham Young

56. “Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.”

— Brigham Young

57. “Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!”

— Brigham Young

58. “Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.”

— Brigham Young

59. “It’s better to die doing good than to live doing evil.”

— Brigham Young

60. “The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy.”

— Brigham Young

61. “See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning...”

— Brigham Young

62. “If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.”

— Brigham Young

63. “The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God’s minister to execute his will in immensity.”

— Brigham Young

64. “Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.”

— Brigham Young

65. “All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.”

— Brigham Young

66. “Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.”

— Brigham Young

67. “Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.”

— Brigham Young

68. “Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.”

— Brigham Young

69. “A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.”

— Brigham Young

70. “Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.”

— Brigham Young

71. “I do not want “Mormonism” to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.”

— Brigham Young

72. “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.”

— Brigham Young

73. “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

74. “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.”

— Brigham Young

75. “Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.”

— Brigham Young

76. “The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.”

— Brigham Young

77. “The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.”

— Brigham Young

78. “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.”

— Brigham Young

79. “As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.”

— Brigham Young

80. “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.”

— Brigham Young

81. “God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.”

— Brigham Young

82. “If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.”

— Brigham Young

83. “If you love the truth, you can remember it.”

— Brigham Young

84. “Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.”

— Brigham Young

85. “Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.”

— Brigham Young

86. “If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?”

— Brigham Young

87. “Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power.”

— Brigham Young

88. “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

89. “There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.”

— Brigham Young

90. “I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.”

— Brigham Young

91. “It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.”

— Brigham Young

92. “Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.”

— Brigham Young

93. “Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.”

— Brigham Young

94. “All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of God write upon it what He pleases. When He writes, I will read; but if I read before He writes, I am very likely to be wrong.”

— Brigham Young

95. “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.”

— Brigham Young

96. “We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.”

— Brigham Young

97. “Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.”

— Brigham Young

98. “When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it.”

— Brigham Young

99. “Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.”

— Brigham Young

100. “No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood.”

— Brigham Young