"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
"You might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but would not convert them. You might read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, and prove every iota that you advance, and that alone would have no converting influence upon the people. Nothing short of a testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost would bring light and knowledge to them -- bring them in their hearts to repentance. Nothing short of that would ever do."
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Source: Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”, p.327
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