Occupation: Founding Figure Birth: June 1, 1801 Death: August 29, 1877
The best remedy for anger is delay..
When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children together, bow down before the L….
One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multip….
Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earli….
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 ….
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..
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 spir….
We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worth….
Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain,….
When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy.
If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is….
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 you….
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community..
If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence….
Kind looks, kind actions, kind words, and a lovely, holy deportment towards them will bind our children to us with bands that cannot easily be broken….