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 […]
Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis
436. We are obligated to build Zion – Wilford Woodruff quote, 1868
We are called to build up Zion, and to establish righteousness and truth…. – Wilford Woodruff, 7/19/1868
502. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Lorenzo Snow quote, 1878
It is more pleasant and agreeable for the Latter-day Saints to enter into this work and build up Zion, than to build up ourselves and have this great competition which is destroying us. Now let things go on in our midst in our Gentile fashion, and you would see an aristocracy growing amongst us, whose […]
483. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Brigham Young quote, 1874
Have we separated ourselves from the nations? Yes. And what else have we done? Ask ourselves the question, Have we not brought Babylon with us? Are we not promoting Babylon here in our midst? Are we not fostering the spirit of Babylon that is now abroad on the face of the whole earth? I ask […]
469. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – John Taylor quote, 1852
I feel as though I am among the honorable of the earth when I am here [in Utah Territory]; and when I get mixed up with the people abroad, and mingle with the great people in the world, I feel otherwise. I have seen and deplored the weakness of men—their folly, selfishness, and corruption. I […]
447. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Brigham Young quote, 1870
Do you think we had better hold on to the ground we have already gained from the enemy? We have gained a little in this cooperative system. We feel for each other and try to assist each other. But let me tell you what I am going to do. I do not expect to merchandise […]
439. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Erastus Snow quote, 1877
The United Order is designed to help us to be self-reliant and to teach us to understand what it costs to produce that which we consume. One of the chief obstacles in the way of our progress towards becoming a self-sustaining people is the lack of this understanding among the people. They cling to the […]
414. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – John Taylor quote, 1875
Now then, in regard to our temporal affairs, these are the things which seem to perplex us more or less. We have been brought up in Babylon, and have inherited Babylonish ideas and systems of business; we have introduced, too, among us, all kinds of chicanery, deception and fraud. It is time that these things […]
372. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Brigham Young quote, 1872
What are you here for? What did you come for? Virtually you all say you left Babylon and came here to build up the kingdom of God…. – Brigham Young, 10/9/1872
367. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – John Taylor quote, 1872
But he saw that a certain power would arise that would make war against the Saints and overcome them, that they should be given into the hands of this power to a certain time. Then he tells us afterwards that, after all these events should have transpired, and all the apostasy and the rising of […]
358. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Brigham Young quote, 1873
Elders of Israel, High Priests, Seventies, High Councilors, Presidents, brethren and sisters, no matter who, if you have an idea that you are going to take Babylon—I use this term, because it is well understood that Babylon means confusion, discord, strife, folly and all the vanities the world possesses—if you have the idea that you […]
317. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Brigham Young quote, 1874
Are we going to enter into the kingdom? Are we going to be prepared for the coming of the Son of Man? Are we going to be prepared to enter into the fullness of the glory of the Father and the Son? Not so long as we live according to the principles of Babylon. Now […]
311. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Brigham Young quote, 1874
We have gone just as far as we can be permitted to go in the road on which we are now traveling. One man has his eye on a gold mine, another is for a silver mine, another is for marketing his flour or his wheat, another for selling his cattle, another to raise cattle, […]
308. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Jedidiah M. Grant quote, 1854
The world is more or less controlled all the time by influences that Lucifer evidently is not opposed to; he has little objection to the present organization of human society, from the fact that everything passes along in the wake that agrees with his religion, and rather tends to forward his purposes. – Jedidiah M. […]
290. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Brigham Young quote, 1872
Suppose we should examine a city in a stake of Zion conducted after the order of Enoch! We would like to look, for a few moments, upon the facts as they would exist. If a people were gathered together, were they many or few, who would follow out the instructions given them in the Bible […]
281. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Orson Pratt quote, 1872
Now mark another prophecy. “I heard a great voice,” says John, “from heaven, saying, ‘Come out of her, O my people!” Out of where? “Mystery Babylon, the Great”—out of this great confusion that exists throughout all the nations and multitudes of Christendom. “Come out of her, O my people, that ye partake not of her […]