Bre > Bre's Quotes

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.”
― Brigham Young

“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
― Brigham Young

“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”
― Brigham Young

“It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.”
― Brigham Young

“To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked. ”
― Brigham Young

“Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.”
― Brigham Young

“True Independence and Freedom can only exist in doing whats right.”
― Brigham Young

“The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.”
― Brigham Young

“If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.”
― Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Volume 3

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
― Rupertus Meldenius

“We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth, and read good books, although I cannot say that I would recommend the reading of all books, for it is not all books which are good. Read good books, and extract from them wisdom and understanding as much as you possibly can, aided by the Spirit of God. (JD 12:124)”
― Brigham Young

“Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.”
― Brigham Young

“Learn to be good for something.”
― Brigham Young

“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

“I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self security. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.”
― Brigham Young

“If you don't feel like praying, pray until you do!”
― Brigham Young

“Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a Shakespeare and give him a total knowledge of the plan of salvation of God and personal revelation and cleanse him and take a look at the statues he will carve and the murals he will paint and the masterpieves he will produce. Take a handel with his purposeful effort, his superb talent, his earnest desire to properly depict the story, and give him inward vision of the whole true story and revelation, and what a master you will have!”
― Brigham Young

“It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.”
― Brigham Young

“It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.”
― Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Volume 12

“Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!”
― Brigham Young

“To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.”
― Brigham Young

“The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the [dog] under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death.”
― Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Volume 13

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

“Our faith is concentrated in the Son of God, and through him in the Father; and the Holy Ghost is their minister to bring truths to our remembrance, to reveal new truths to us, and teach, guide, and direct the course of every mind, until we become perfected and prepared to go home, where we can see and converse with our Father in Heaven.”
― Brigham Young

“If we are constantly aware of the seeds of divinity in us, it will
help us rise above earthly challenges and difficulties. Brigham Young said:
'When I look upon the faces of intelligent beings I look upon the image
of the God I serve. There are none but what have a certain portion of
divinity within them; and though we are clothed with bodies which are in
the image of our God, yet this mortality shrinks before that portion of
divinity which we inherit from our Father' (Discourses of Brigham
Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe [1941], 168). Being aware of our divine
heritage will help men young and old to grow and magnify the divinity which
is within them and within all of us.”
― James E. Faust

“Mend it, fix it, make do, or do without.”
― Brigham Young University

“When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.”
― Brigham Young

“It is a glorious privilege to be attending this, the greatest university in all the world... take a good look and carefully analyze, and when you take the important points and sum them up, you come out with this final thought: Brigham Young University is the greatest university in the world.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time