311 Quotes by Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. Brother Kimball quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a God who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if be had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other. If he had a Father, he was made in his likeness. And if he is our Father we are made after his image and likeness.

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.

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.

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

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

Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!