Birth: November 22, 1856 Death: May 14, 1945
I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon..
Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do..
I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet..
If we are faithful in keeping the commandments of God His promises will be fulfilled to the very letter. . . . The trouble is, the adversary of men's….
Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back….
He can who thinks he can..
The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung ….
Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go..
The first great commandment was to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, might, mind and strength; and the second was like unto it, to love our ….
I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our d….
The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in p….
He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for "there is none other name under heaven given among men,….
No matter in what land we may dwell the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us brothers and sisters, interested in each other, eager to understand ….
The Lord does not need your tithing, as far as He is concerned, but you need it for your growth, spiritually and temporally, that the windows of heav….
Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts..
When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in line. But step one step aside, and every….
The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee, as well as from this stand, is that the ….
I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and say, because they cannot do as wel….
The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach us the character of God, and ….
Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the b….
There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that cha….