Man’s wants are very numerous, but his necessities are really very few, and we should abridge our wants, and go to work and manufacture everything we can within ourselves; and what we cannot manufacture we can import, and save ourselves the 40, 120, 400, or 1,000 percent that we are now paying for our merchandise, […]
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305. Early Utahns Were Building Zion – Wilford Woodruff quote, 1876
And what is the result of our preaching? Let facts speak for themselves. You can behold for yourselves, a people gathered here from the different nations, all prompted by the same motives, namely, to build up and establish Zion on the earth, in fulfillment of the words of God, through the mouths of his Prophets. […]
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 […]
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
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
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 […]
248. We are obligated to build Zion, Wilford Woodruff, 1876
Our calling is to perfect ourselves, to purify Zion, and make it a fit habitation for the Son of God when he comes; to build Temples, and in them perform the rites and ordinances for the living and the dead, and accomplish all that God designs us to do. And that we may be faithful […]
231. We are obligated to build Zion, Wilford Woodruff, 1867
We have to build up Zion, a temporal work here upon the face of the earth, and we have got to establish righteousness and truth. – Wilford Woodruff, 4/7/1867
293. Early Utahns Were Building Zion – John Taylor quote, 1882
And as we are here for the purpose of building up Zion, He [God] expects that we will be upright and honorable in all our dealings with one another and with all men. – John Taylor, 4/9/1882
242. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, John Taylor, 1881
Now, then, God has gathered us together for a purpose, and that purpose is to build up Zion and to establish His kingdom on the earth…. We are here, then, to build up Zion. – John Taylor, 1/9/1881
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
253. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, John Taylor, 1875
We read of the Zion that was built up by Enoch…. We have been expecting all along to build up a similar Zion upon these mountains…. – John Taylor, 8/31/1875
322. Early Utahns Were Building Zion – Brigham Young quote, 1867
…we can build up Zion and be of one heart and of one mind… – Brigham Young, 4/6/1867
324. Building Zion is Gods Will – John Taylor quote, 1880
We are told to build up Zion, shall we do it? I tell you in the name of Israel’s God we will do it with the help of the Almighty; we cannot do it without, but with his help we will do it. We will build up the Zion of our God, and help to […]
255. Its Temporal Too!, John Taylor, 1878
And if we, as Latter-day Saints, were to strictly observe the Sabbath day, and pay our tithes and offerings, and meet our engagements, and be less worldly minded, be united in temporal and spiritual things, Zion would arise and shine, and the glory of God would rest upon her. – John Taylor, 7/7/1878