Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snow was an American religious leader, writer, and politician who worked as a prophet, presbyter, and missionary during the nineteenth century.
Born on April 3, 1814, in Mantua, in Portage County, Snow was a citizen of the United States who used the English language throughout his life and work. He received part of his education at Oberlin College before going on to pursue the religious and civic roles that would define his adult years.
Snow took on several distinct roles over the course of his life, serving as a missionary, a presbyter, and a prophet. Alongside that religious work, he was also active as a politician, and he produced written work in English that reached his contemporaries. These various responsibilities — religious, literary, and political — ran alongside one another rather than in strict sequence, giving his career a notably varied character.
He died on October 10, 1901, in Salt Lake City. The combination of religious leadership, missionary activity, and political engagement remained the consistent threads running through his life as a public figure in the United States.
Quotes by Lorenzo Snow
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Where the Lord plants us, there we are to stand; when he requires us to exert ourselves for the support of these holy principles, that we are to do; that is all we need to trouble ourselves about; the rest our Heavenly Father will take care of.
There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.
There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder when he is preaching the gospel as the Lord that sent him to preach to the people who are the Lord’s children.
We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the accomplishment of this object, raised them up and inspired them to frame the Constitution of the United States.
The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you...
There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit of God, which is the spirit of revelation to every man and woman. It will reveal to them, even in the simplest of matters, what they shall do, by making suggestions to them. We should try to learn the nature of this spirit, that we may understand its suggestions, and then we will always be able to do right. This is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint.
. . . This is the high destiny of the sons of God, they who overcome, who are obedient to His commandments, who purify themselves even as He is pure. They are to become like Him; they will see Him as He is; they will behold His face and reign with Him in His glory, becoming like unto Him in every particular.
We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles of life and truth. The Lord wishes to establish a closer and more intimate relationship between Himself and us; He wishes to elevate us in the scale of being and intelligence, and this can only be done through the medium of the everlasting Gospel which is specially prepared for this purpose.