Joseph, the Prophet, told us to go to work and build up the cities of Zion, and not to build up strange cities. – George A. Smith, 12/29/1867
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321. Early Missionaries Taught About Zion – Brigham Young quote, 1852
When you had obeyed the first ordinances of the Gospel, then you discovered that the Lord and set his hand to gather Israel, that Zion might be built up and Israel gathered from the four winds. These doctrines have been taught and re-taught again and again. I think there is not a man here who […]
356. Central to The Gospel – Franklin D. Richards quote, 1882
It remains for us to continue to bear our testimony to the world, to build our Temples, in which to perform the work for ourselves and our dead, essential to salvation and exaltation in his kingdom, and to build up a Zion to the glory of God. That this may be our determined purpose to […]
252. We are obligated to build Zion, John Taylor, 1879
It is difficult, as has been remarked, for us sometimes to realize the position we occupy—the relation we sustain to our heavenly Father—the responsibility that rests upon us, and the various duties we have to perform in the fulfillment of the purposes of God; in the interest of a world lying in wickedness; in the […]
350. We are obligated to build Zion – Heber C. Kimball quote, 1860
Every man that has received the Priesthood, whether an Apostle, Prophet, High Priest, Elder, Bishop, Priest, or Teacher—all should live as one man—be of one heart and one mind. – Heber C. Kimball, 7/1/1860
229. Central to The Gospel, Heber C. Kimball, 1854
Let us go, to work and build up Zion as well as build up ourselves, for when we build up Zion we build up ourselves, when we enrich Zion we enrich ourselves. – Heber C. Kimball, 11/26/1854
274. Early Utahns Were Building Zion – Brigham Young quote, 1874
We are trying to unite the people together in the order that the Lord revealed to Enoch, which will be observed and sustained in the latter days in redeeming and building up Zion; this is the very order that will do it, and nothing short of it. We are trying to organize the Latter-day Saints […]
239. Economic Independence, Erastus Snow, 1877
How long do you think it would take if we were all producers, and converting the raw materials into useful articles, to become a self-sustaining people? And then if we heard of Babylon’s downfall, we would not of necessity lift up our hands and cry, “O Lord spare her a little longer, we are not […]
364. We are obligated to build Zion – Brigham Young quote, 1867
Read the revelations in the Book of Doctrines and Covenants given through Joseph, and you will find that the burden of the gathering of the House of Israel, the building up of Zion, and the sanctifying of the people, and the preparing for the coming of the Son of Man is upon the elders of […]
316. We are obligated to build Zion – Brigham Young quote, 1867
We are under obligations to establish the Zion of our God upon the earth, and establish and maintain its laws, so that the law of the priesthood of the Son of God may govern… the people. – Brigham Young, 12/8/1867
307. Building Zion is Gods Will – John Taylor quote, 1858
…the Lord has set his hand to accomplish his designs in these last days; he has opened the heavens and revealed his purposes to his servants the Prophets, and has called his people from the ends of the earth to gather together, that he might establish his Zion upon the earth, and bring to pass […]
318. Central to The Gospel – Brigham Young quote, 1873
The Lord has blessed me; he has always blessed me; from the time I commenced to build up Zion, I have been extremely blessed. I could relate circumstances of so extraordinary a character in regard to the providences of God to me, that my brethren and sisters would say in their hearts, “I can hardly […]
327. Central to The Gospel – John Taylor quote, 1874
I want to be the friend of God and God to be my friend; I want to help to roll forth the Kingdom of God and to build up the Zion of the Most High, and I want to see my brethren engaged in the same work, and we will do it. In the name […]
332. We are obligated to build Zion – Wilford Woodruff quote, 1880
We ought not to treat lightly the holy priesthood, or attempt to use it for any other purpose under the whole heavens other than to build up the Zion of God. – Wilford Woodruff, 7/3/1880
301. No Need to Wait – Brigham Young quote, 1862
We can make a Zion of God on earth at our pleasure…. by the judicious management and arrangement of this ever-existing material a Zion of God can always be built on the earth. – Brigham Young, 2/23/1862
246. Central to The Gospel, John Taylor, 1878
We will operate together, and with all Israel and with the gods in the eternal worlds, and with the patriarchs, prophets and apostles, and all the holy men of God who have lived before us, in assisting to bring to pass all the designs of God of which the prophets have spoken, and in building […]