I consider that we are in a position in which we have every chance to do a great deal of good in our day and generation, we have every chance to work with the Lord, every chance to fulfil our mission and calling here on the earth. We have every chance to build up the […]
Monthly Archives: May 2026
71. Central to The Gospel, Brigham Young, 1860
The Latter-day Saints throughout the valleys in these mountains and throughout the world ought to be learning what they are on this earth for. They are here to increase and multiply, to enlarge, to gather the house of Israel, redeem Zion, build up the Zion of our God, and to promote that eternal intelligence that […]
#512 – Co-ops are a stepping stone – John Taylor – 1878
“Well, the time is passing, but before closing, I wish to say a word or two in regard to this cooperation in temporal things. They are very little things, but they form a kind of stepping stone towards other and more important events. A closer union which we shall expect to inaugurate by-and-by, but which […]
122. Central to The Gospel, Brigham Young, 1862
Our course is onward to build up Zion, and the nation that has slain the Prophet of God and cast out his people will have to pay the debt. – Brigham Young, 8/31/1862
113. Central to The Gospel, Brigham Young, 1862
We are determined to build up the kingdom of God on the earth; to bring forth Zion, to promote the cause of righteousness on the earth, and to walk under foot sin and wickedness. – Brigham Young, 8/31/1862
151. Central to The Gospel, Brigham Young, 1865
It is the kingdom of God or nothing with us, and by the help of the Almighty we shall bear it off triumphantly to all nations, gather Israel, build up Zion, redeem Israel, and Jesus Christ will triumph, and we shall reign with him on the earth, and possess it and all its fulness with […]
211. Central to The Gospel, Wilford Woodruff, 1881
The Lord has sent forth angels out of heaven. He has delivered the fulness of the Gospel to Joseph Smith. He was raised up as a Prophet of God, by the power of God, to lay the foundation of this Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the earth, and to lay the foundation […]
#511 – Co-ops are a stepping stone – Lorenzo Snow – 1873
“I view cooperation, when properly understood and practiced, as being a steppingstone to the Order of Enoch, and will enable the Saints who receive it in a proper spirit, to gradually prepare themselves to enter, in due time, more fully into the practice of principles necessary to accomplish the building up of the kingdom of […]
145. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, Lorenzo Snow, 1867
Quite a number of young men have been called to go to the southern portion of our Territory for the purpose of developing the resources thereof and building up Zion. – Lorenzo Snow, 10/9/1867
86. Building Zion Requires Real Labor, George A. Smith, 1861
“The word of the Presidency is, brethren, it is necessary to strengthen the southern border of our thriving Territory, and this is for the general good of all. Now you go down south and raise cotton and you will be blessed more than you ever have been heretofore, and know that in doing this you […]
67. It’s Temporal Too!, Daniel H. Wells, 1861
To build up Zion is a temporal labor; it does not consist simply in teaching: teaching is to instruct us how to properly apply our labor, the sooner and better to accomplish the end in view. Bone and sinew is required to build up the kingdom of God in the last days. – Daniel H. […]
85. It’s Temporal Too!, Ezra T. Benson, 1862
“I do not arise with any desire to interfere with the call of brother George A. Smith for brethren to go to the cotton district of our Territory, for I am very much in favor of brethren going to locate in the different settlements of Washington County to raise cotton and such other staple articles […]
72. Building Zion is God’s Will, Brigham Young, 1867
Do we know and understand that it is our business to build up Zion? To have seen the way this people have conducted themselves in years past, one would not have had the least idea that such was our business; but it made no difference whom we built cities for; many would build for Jew […]
87. It’s Temporal Too!, Ezra T. Benson, 1862
“Now we want about a hundred good sturdy fellows that feel themselves able to go to work to raise wheat and cattle, and to do all that is necessary for the beautifying and building up of Zion. It is a good place to raise flax, hemp, and vegetables. To be sure the altitude is considerably […]
63. Central to The Gospel, Brigham Young, 1860
Men rise up here and say they do know that this is the work of God, that Joseph was a Prophet, that the Book of Mormon is true, that the revelations through Joseph Smith are true, that this is the last dispensation and the fullness of times, wherein God has set to his hand to […]
108. Central to The Gospel, George A. Smith, 1862
The rest are still laboring to build up Zion, to spread abroad the fulness of the everlasting Gospel and to save all who will give heed to its teachings and the dictates of the Holy Spirit, while those who cannot “bear the sieve of vanity” are occasionally leaving the Church and going again to wallow […]