We are to build up and establish Zion, gather the house of Israel, and redeem the nations of the earth. This people have this work to do, whether we live to see it or not. – Brigham Young, 6/3/1860
Monthly Archives: August 2025
62. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, Brigham Young, 1859
Then I might say, O ye wicked nations of the earth, why do you quarrel with us all the time for doing you good? We want to build up Zion and bring up your fathers and mothers to enjoy a glory, and you are trying to prevent us. They are contending against their own lives […]
74. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, Brigham Young, 1860
[Their converts] are not worth bringing across the Plains; for, after their arrival, they annoy and disturb the peace of others. Do such come here to build up Zion? Did such persons love the Gospel? No; or, if they did, they lost that love while coming here. – Brigham Young, 4/22/1860
23. Building Zion Requires Real Labor, Brigham Young, 1855
…everything connected with building up Zion requires actual, severe labor. It is nonsense to talk about building up any kingdom except by labor; it requires the labor of every part of our organization, whether it be mental, physical, or spiritual, and that is the only way to build up the kingdom of God. – Brigham […]
19. Central to The Gospel, Jedediah M. Grant, 1856
“May we accomplish the great work thou didst commence through thy servant Joseph, that truth may reign on the earth, and righteousness predominate among all people. May we have power over the wicked nations, that Zion may be the seat of government for the universe, the law of God be extended, and the scepter of […]
14. Building Zion Requires Real Labor, Brigham Young, 1855
You know the old theory is that the kingdom of God, and all pertaining to it, is spiritual and not temporal; that is the traditional notion of our brother Christians. But a person may merely think until he goes down to the grave, and he will never be the means of saving one soul, not […]
56. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, Brigham Young, 1857
We can make Zion, or we can make Babylon, just as we please. We can make just what we please of this place. The people can make Zion: they can make a heaven within themselves. When people gather here, they should come with a determination to make Zion within themselves, with the resolution that, “I […]
53. Central to The Gospel, Daniel H. Wells, 1860
This Gospel is meat to my soul; it affords me continual pleasure; I contemplate it with delight. If I had the tongue of an angel, or of the most eloquent upon the earth it would be my delight to speak of the goodness of God and of the work he is performing; for it appears […]
33. It’s Temporal Too!, Brigham Young, 1860
What do you know about building the great Temple that is yet to be built, upon which the glory of God will rest by day and by night? Where is the man that knows how to lay the first rock in that Temple, or to get out the first stick of timber for it? Where […]
Elder L. Tom Perry on Building Zion
Lest we think that only the Brethren during Brigham’s era were interested in building Zion, here’s a great quote by Apostle L. Tom Perry in the April 2001 General Conference which brings out an element of building Zion that we often over-look – the economic side of Zion: “The Prophet had a design to build […]
50. It’s Temporal Too!, George A. Smith, 1861
Here we learn the arts of cultivation and of building; we learn to irrigate the land; we also, in many respects, prepare ourselves for a day when we shall go to the place that has been appointed for the building up of the city of Zion and for the building of the house which shall […]
40. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, Wilford Woodruff, 1856
There must be a change in the way of the gathering, in order to save them from the calamities and the scourges that are coming upon the wicked nations of the earth. It would require more gold than all the Saints possess upon the earth, to gather the Saints unto Zion from all nations in […]
27. Central to The Gospel, Brigham Young, 1856
May the Lord God of heaven and earth bless you, and may He preserve us and all good men and women upon the earth, and give us power to [1] blow the Gospel trump to earth’s remotest bounds, and [2] gather up the honest in heart, [3] build up Zion, [4] redeem Israel, [5] rebuild […]
78. It’s Temporal Too!, Brigham Young, 1863
The work of building up Zion is in every sense a practical work; it is not a mere theory. A theoretical religion amounts to very little real good or advantage to any person. To possess an inheritance in Zion or in Jerusalem only in theory—only in imagination—would be the same as having no inheritance at […]
61. Early Missionaries Taught About Zion, Brigham Young, 1860
You came to England and preached the Gospel, and told me not to trust in man, but to seek unto the Lord my God, in the name of Jesus Christ, and receive a witness for myself and know for myself that Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God, that the Book of Mormon is true, […]
64. Building Zion is God’s Will, George Q. Cannon, 1866
God has reserved spirits for this dispensation who have the courage and determination to face the world, and all the powers of the evil one, visible and invisible, to proclaim the Gospel, and maintain the truth, and establish and build up the Zion of our God, fearless of all consequences. He has sent these spirits […]