Discourses of Brigham Young

Composed of Eternal Laws--Embraces all Truth--Increasing Knowledge of Gospel--Holds Power of Priesthood--The Gospel of Life and Salvation--Offers Salvation to All--A Guide in Da...

Confusion of the Last Days--Ultimate Triumph of Righteousness--Return to Jackson County--Coming of Christ--The Millennium--Rapid Movements in the Last Days--Zion--The Land of Zi...

Faith and Works--Time Should be Spent Wisely--Labor Indispensable--Let Nothing go to Waste--We Must be a Self-sustaining People--The Elements of Wealth are Around Us--Agricultur...

Wealth Belongs to the Lord--Uncertainty of Temporal Possessions--The Sin of Covetousness--True Riches--Gold is not Wealth--How to Become Wealthy--Wealth Must be Used--Wealth Bri...

The Gospel to be Preached to all Men--Help to Save Every Person--Words to Departing Missionaries--Advice to Missionaries in the Field--The Returned Missionary--The Gospel is Pre...

Theocratic Government--Republican Government--God and Governments--Fitness of Rulers--Labor and Politics--Saints and Politics--The Constitution of U. S. an Inspired Document--Th...

The Body Must Return to Mother Earth--Man Should Live out His Days--We Should Not Mourn for the Righteous Dead--Our Identity will be Preserved--Our Bodies will be Resurrected--J...

Saints Always Commanded to Build Temples--Temples Indispensable for Higher Ordinances--Endowments Given in Temples--Vicarious Work for the Dead in Temples--Who Should Represent...

Man Desires Salvation--Humanity Loves Truth and Righteousness--Human Family Alike in Sentiments--A Variety of Human Gifts--Man's Powers are Limited--Man Must have Confidence in...

All Latter-day Saints May Know the Gospel is True--How a Witness of the Truth is Won--Why Some Men Reject the Gospel--Testimony Not Built Upon a Man--Joseph Smith a Witness of t...

Israel--The Church and the Kingdom--An Object of the Church--The Kingdom of God to Develop Gradually--The Effect of the Kingdom of God--It Will Continue--The Business of Latter-...

Joseph Smith, a Prophet of God--Joseph Called and Directed by God--The Development of the Prophet--What Joseph Taught--Results of the Prophet's Labors--Persecutions of the Proph...

_Composed of Eternal Laws_--The Gospel of the Son of God that has been revealed is a plan or system of laws and ordinances, by strict obedience to which the people who inhabit t...

Some believe or conceive the idea that to know God would lessen him in our estimation; but I can say that for me to understand any principle or being, on earth or in heaven, it...

_The Spirit of God_--God is here: his influence fills immensity. He has his messengers throughout all the works of his hands. He watches every one of his creatures; their acts,...

_Time_--When was there a beginning? There never was one; if there was, there will be an end; but there never was a beginning, and hence there will never be an end; that looks li...

The volition of the creature is free; this is a law of their existence and the Lord cannot violate his own law; were he to do that, he would cease to be God. He has placed life...

_Lucifer_--There was a devil in heaven, and he strove to possess the birthright of the Savior. He was a liar from the beginning, and loves those who love and make lies, as do hi...

The whole mortal existence of man is neither more nor less than a preparatory state given to finite beings, a space wherein they may improve themselves for a higher state of bei...

It is written that the greatest gift God can bestow upon man is the gift of eternal life. The greatest attainment that we can reach is to preserve our identity to an eternal dur...

_The Earth_--The world and all its various grades of organized denizens, from the lowest forms of vegetable or animal life, up to man, the lord of creation, were framed and made...

The sinner will slay the sinner, the wicked will fall upon the wicked, until: there is an utter overthrow and consumption upon the face of the whole earth, until God reigns, who...

We are believers in the Bible, and to our unshaken faith in its precepts, doctrine, and prophecy, may be attributed "the strangeness of our course," and the unwarrantable conduc...

_The Priesthood_--All ye inhabitants of the earth, hearken and hear! God has, in our day, spoken from the heavens; he has bestowed his holy Priesthood on the children of men; he...

_Importance of the Principles of the Gospel_--By faithfully attending to the first principles of the Gospel laid down in the New Testament, you are introduced into the knowledge...

Persons professing to be Saints should assemble themselves together on the Lord's day, except those who may be necessarily detained at home to keep the house, take care of the c...

_The Law of Tithing_--One thing is required at the hands of this people, and to understand which there is no necessity for receiving a commandment every year, viz.: to pay their...

Indulgence of appetite is not worthy the notice of men and women, though the body must be sustained, for that is a duty God has placed upon us. 8:141.

Any man who humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed. If the refined...

_The Housewife_--I am addressing myself to the ladies of the Kingdom of God, to those who know how to keep their houses, furniture and beds pure and clean, who can cook food for...

_Counsel_--How my heart longs to see the brethren and sisters in a condition that when the words of truth and virtue--righteous words of counsel--are poured upon them, they will...

We rejoice because the Lord is ours, because we are sown in weakness for the express purpose of attaining to greater power and perfection. In everything the Saints may rejoice--...

The person who enjoys the experience of the knowledge of the Kingdom of God on the earth, and at the same time has the love of God within him, is the happiest of any individuals...

_Knowledge and Intelligence_--Education is a good thing, and blessed is the man who has it, and can use it for the dissemination of the Gospel without being puffed up with pride...

Have we a will? Yes. It is an endowment, a trait of the character of the Gods, with which all intelligence is endowed, in heaven and on earth,--the power to accept or reject. 9:...

It is folly in the extreme for persons to say that they love God; when they do not love their brethren; and it is of no use for them to say that they have confidence in God, whe...

_Be of One Mind and One Heart_--I pray, my brethren, the Bishops, the Elders, the Seventies, the Apostles, yea, every man and woman and child who has named the name of Christ, t...

The grand difficulty with the people is they do not do quite as well as they know how; it is that which hinders us from accomplishing the work given us to do. 19:220.

_Wealth Belongs to the Lord_--Earthly riches are concealed in the elements God has given to man, and the essence of wealth is power to organize from these elements every comfort...

It is necessary that all have the privilege of receiving or rejecting eternal truth, that they may be prepared to be saved, or be prepared to be damned. 7:139.

_Visions of a Personal Nature_--I ask, Is there a reason for men and women being exposed more constantly and more powerfully, to the power of the enemy, by having visions than b...

The people of the Most High God must be tried. It is written that they will be tried in all things, even as Abraham was tried. If we are called to go upon mount Moriah to sacrif...

_Theocratic Government_--I believe in a true republican theocracy, and also in a true democratic theocracy, as the term democratic is now used; for they are to me, in their pres...

_The Body Must Return to Mother Earth_--Every person possessing the principle of eternal life should look upon his body as of the earth earthy. Our bodies must return to their m...

_All Go to the Spirit World_--When we get through this state of being, to the next room, I may call it, we are not going to stop there. We shall still go on, doing all the good...

_Judgment According to Works_--This is a subject I have reflected upon a great deal, and I have come to the conclusion that we shall be judged according to the deeds done in the...

_Universal Salvation_--Salvation is the full existence of man, of the angels, and the Gods; it is eternal life--the life which was, which is, and which is to come. And we, as hu...

Concerning revelations pertaining to building temples, I will give you the words of our beloved Prophet while he was yet living upon the earth. Many of us that are here today, w...

_Man Desires Salvation_--Honest hearts, the world over, desire to know the right way. They have sought for it, and still seek it. There have been people upon the earth all the t...

_All Latter-day Saints May Know the Gospel Is True_--It is a special privilege and blessing of the holy Gospel to every true believer, to know the truth for himself. 1:234.

_Israel_--Who are Israel? They are those who are of the seed of Abraham, who have received the promise through their forefathers; and all the rest of the children of men, who re...

Is there war in our religion? No; neither war nor bloodshed. Yet our enemies cry out "bloodshed," and "Oh, what dreadful men these Mormons are, and those Danites! how they slay...

What I have received from the Lord, I have received by Joseph Smith; he was the instrument made use of. If I drop him, I must drop these principles; they have not been revealed,...

_The Journey Across the Plains_--A short recital of the reasons, why these children before me were born here instead of being born in the States, I can give to you, and will end...