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"I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The whole world will think what an awful thing it is. What an awful thing it would be if the Mormons should just say we believe in marrying brothers and sisters."
"Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin."
"Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!"
"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"
"Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can."
"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 temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy."
"Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints."
"The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will."
"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."
"It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction."
"Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music."
"Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?"
"The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity."
"Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity."
"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."
"My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies."
"I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet."
"If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up."
"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)"
"There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven."