Quote

Learn to sustain yourselves lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

Brigham Young

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Brigham Young
Age: 76 †
Born: 1801
Born: June 1
Died: 1877
Died: August 29
Carpenter
Founding Figure
Politician
Prophet
Theologian
Whitingham
Vermont
Save
Learn
Preparedness
Flour
Scarcity
Sustain
Grain
Lays
Survival

More quotes by Brigham Young

Image
To be damned is to be banished from, or be deprived of living in the presence of the Father and the Son. Who will live with him? They [who] will come up and inherit the highest glory that is prepared for the faithful.
Brigham Young
Image
The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.
Brigham Young
Image
No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are
Brigham Young
Image
You educate a man you educate a man. You educate a woman you educate a generation.
Brigham Young
Image
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
Image
We need to learn, practice, study, know, and understand how angels live with each other. When this community comes to the point to be perfectly honest and upright, you will never find a poor person none will lack, all will have sufficient.
Brigham Young
Image
What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.
Brigham Young
Image
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 in each other, our joy will be full.
Brigham Young
Image
Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?
Brigham Young
Image
Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test
Brigham Young
Image
I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
Brigham Young
Image
Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?
Brigham Young
Image
There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.
Brigham Young
Image
The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.
Brigham Young
Image
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Brigham Young
Image
If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, We'll not try this game any longer.
Brigham Young
Image
All that the Lord requires of us is strict obedience to the laws of life. All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people is strict obedience to our own covenants that we have made with our God, and that is to serve him with an undivided heart.
Brigham Young
Image
Love the giver more than the gift.
Brigham Young
Image
'Mormonism' has made me all I am and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.
Brigham Young
Image
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young