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
Quotes
343. Co-ops are a Stepping Stone – John Taylor Quote, 1878
What was the principle of cooperation intended for? Simply as a stepping stone for the United Order, that is all, that we might be united and operate together in the interest of building up Zion. – John Taylor, 9/21/1878
250. Its Temporal Too! Brigham Young, 1874
I will now ask the question, where is the individual who can draw the line and show us that, when Jesus prayed that his disciples might be one, he meant a oneness only in spiritual things, and that it was not to extend to temporal affairs? Will any of you draw the line and tell […]
235. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, John Taylor, 1884
We are here really to build up and purify the Church of the living God. We are here to build up and establish the kingdom of God. We are here also to build up a Zion unto our God…. – John Taylor, 11/30/1884
270. Central to The Gospel – Wilford Woodruff quote, 1873
…the Saints, and although mixed like corn in a sieve among the Gentile nations they have been prepared from the foundation of the world to come forth as the sons of Jacob in these latter days, to build up the Zion of God on the earth. We have got to come to it. – Wilford […]
509. What Building Zion Requires of Us – John Taylor quote, 1881
And if we are faithful, God will stand by Israel; he will preserve his elect; he will listen to our prayers: and we will go to work by his help to build up Zion and establish the Kingdom of God upon the earth – John Taylor, 1/2/1881
507. Zion Prophesied – Wilford Woodruff quote, 1856
[Robert Mason] said, “When you read the Bible do you ever think that what you read there is going to be fulfilled? The teachers of the day,” said he, “spiritualize the Bible, but when you read in the Bible about the dreams, visions, revelations and predictions of Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, or any other of the […]
505. What Building Zion Requires of Us – John Taylor quote, 1880
Here we are. We are organized under the direction of the Almighty; and as I before said, not according to our ideas and notions, but according to the word and will and revelations and law of God. And none of us can do anything only as God permits us. What are we going to do? […]
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 […]
501. What Building Zion Requires of Us – Dale E. Miller quote, 1998
The symbiosis between Church and member is strikingly efficient. As we invest our time, talents, and means to build Zion, our hearts are purified, our wisdom increases, celestial habits begin to form, and the Holy Spirit prepares us to receive the presence of the Father and the Son. By thrusting in our sickle, we reap […]
498. What Building Zion Requires of Us – Daniel H. Wells quote, 1861
We need everything else that is necessary to build up any other kingdom, and we have to produce it from the elements with which we are surrounded. We have been brought far from the wicked world, to give us an opportunity to show that we will do it, or that we will not do it—to […]
493. Zion Prophesied – Orson Pratt quote, 1875
Jeremiah tells us where [the ten tribes] will go; he tells us there is to be a place called Zion before these tribes come out of the north countries, and when they come with a great company, the blind and the lame with them, and the Lord God leads them with supplication and with tears […]
492. What Building Zion Requires of Us – George Q. Cannon quote, 1883
To build up Zion should be the thought of every heart—to labor to establish the cause of God in the earth, to be a [covenant] people. – George Q. Cannon, 8/26/1883
488. What Building Zion Requires of Us – Orson Pratt quote, 1879
And he will have to give more revelation on other things equally as important, for we shall need instructions how to build up Zion; how to establish the center city; how to lay off the streets; the kind of ornamental trees to adorn the sidewalks, as well as everything else by way of beautifying it, […]
487. Economic Unity – John Taylor quote, 1879
But I will promise the Latter-day Saints that if they will go into these [cooperative enterprises] allowing God to dictate in the interests of Israel and the building up of his Zion on the earth, and take themselves and their individual interests out of the question, feeling they are acting for him and his kingdom, […]
484. Zion Prophesied – Orson Hyde quote, 1855
If I feel at our approaching Conference as I now do, I shall ask to move that our home missions be not diminished, but increased, if possible; and all set to raising wheat, and make Zion a house and city of refuge for the Saints and for the sons of strangers, that they may come […]