The purpose of our life should be to build up the Zion of our God, to gather the house of Israel, bring in the fulness of the Gentiles, restore and bless the earth with our ability and make it as the Garden of Eden, store up treasures of knowledge and wisdom in our own understandings, […]
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105. Economic Independence, Wilford Woodruff, 1867
We have to build up Zion independent of the wicked; we have got to become self-sustaining, and the Lord is inspiring His prophets to preach to us to lay the foundation for the accomplishment of this work. The day is not far distant when we shall have to take care of ourselves. Great Babylon is […]
73. We Are Obligated to Build Zion, Brigham Young, 1862
The kingdom of God is before us; we have it to build up, and to establish the Zion of our God upon this land. And if I am right in my views and feelings, the Latter-day Saints cannot labor too fast nor too diligently to accomplish the work they are called to do. Then let […]
117. Building Zion is God’s Will, Brigham Young, 1868
The ordinance of sealing must be performed here man to man, and woman to man, and children to parents, etc., until the chain of generation is made perfect in the sealing ordinances back to father Adam; hence, we have been commanded to gather ourselves together, to come out from Babylon, and sanctify ourselves, and build […]
182. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, John Taylor, 1872
We have been gathered here. What for? What did we come here for? Who knows? We came here because God said he would build up his Zion in the latter days. – John Taylor, 5/26/1872
140. It’s Temporal Too!, Wilford Woodruff, 1867
There is no division among us so far as the principles of our religion are concerned; it is in relation to some things the world call temporal that we are not one. How are you going to build up Zion? In the hearts of the people?…. We have to build up Zion, a temporal work […]
126. Building Zion is God’s Will, Erastus Snow, 1868
God has called us to turn away from the folly of sustaining and building up Babylon—the worshippers of mammon—those who have no interest in common with us in establishing Zion and building up the Kingdom of our God upon the earth. – Erastus Snow, 4/8/1868
256. We are obligated to build Zion, Wilford Woodruff, 1880
I feel therefore to say to my brethren who bear the holy priesthood, and I say it to myself and to all—I do not think we have much time to lie down and slumber. We have no time to speculate in trying to get rich, in trying to accumulate gold and silver. What we have […]
243. What Holds Us Back, George Q. Cannon, 1883
God has commanded us to forsake Babylon. He has called us out from Babylon; but though we have come out from Babylon we have brought to a great extent Babylon with us, the love of Babylon, the love of that which God abhors, and which He commands us to forsake. We have brought it with […]
208. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, Wilford Woodruff, 1873
I would to God that the eyes of the Latter-day Saints were open far more than they are to those things that rest upon them! The Lord is looking to them alone to build up his Zion here in the mountains of Israel, and to prepare the bride, the Lamb’s wife, for the coming of […]
172. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, Wilford Woodruff, 1870
In fact there is no dispensation that has been looked upon with as much interest by all the prophets of God and inspired men, from the day of Joseph Smith, as that in which we live, in which the Zion of God is being built up, and the earth is being prepared for the coming […]
164. Co-ops are a Stepping Stone, Brigham Young quote, 1869
This cooperative movement is only a stepping stone to what is called the Order of Enoch, but which is in reality the Order of Heaven. – Brigham Young, 4/7/1869
Jesse Co-ops are a Stepping Stone, Economic Unity 1 Brigham Young
152. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, Joseph F. Smith, 1868
We are engaged in the great latter-day work, of preaching the Gospel to the nations, gathering the poor and building up Zion upon the earth. – Joseph F. Smith, 11/25/1868
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 […]
209. No Need to Wait, Lorenzo Snow, 1878
Wherever there is a people of God, the principles of the United Order are applicable, if they would receive and obey them. Some have thought that the United Order was to be kept only by the people who should go up to the land of Missouri. Now this, I believe, is incorrect. It would seem […]
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 […]