God will bless us in our labors and efforts; and if we will cooperate together in our temporal affairs and conduct our business on correct principles, the world will be better for us, and we will be better off in the world. We will have more means to build up the kingdom of God; we […]
Quotes
276. What Building Zion Requires of Us – Brigham Young quote, 1868
In building up the Zion of God on this land we must become very different from what we are now, in many respects and particularly in financial matters…. There are many men who are so anxious for wealth, that if they cannot make a fortune in a few months, they feel they are not succeeding […]
275. Economic Unity – Brigham Young quote, 1868
What does the Lord want of us up here in the tops of these mountains? He wishes us to build up Zion. What are the people doing? They are merchandising, trafficking and trading. – Brigham Young, 1/12/1868
“We shall work for each other’s good” – George Q. Cannon
The intention is to use the skill of the businessman in elevating those who are not businessmen, to bring up the poor from their level to the broad upper level, not to pull down the upper level to the plane of the lower. That is not the design, but it is that we shall work […]
269. What Building Zion Requires of Us – Brigham Young quote, 1872
When shall we establish the principles of Zion? You can say, “I do not know.” If we had power to do it, we should do it; but we are just in the position and condition, and upon precisely the same ground that God our Father is—He cannot force his children to do this, that or […]
268. Zion Prophesied – John Taylor Quote, 1883
And then the Lord understood another principle, namely, that the time would come when the power of Satan, and the power of the wicked would be overthrown; when the Zion of God would be established; when a reign of righteousness would be introduced; when there would be a communion between the Priesthood on the earth […]
267. Economic Unity – George Q. Cannon Quote, 1882
[God] does not design that there shall be classes among us, one class lifted up above another, one class separated from the rest of the people, with diverse interests; interests that are not strictly in accord with those of the masses of the people. Because when this is the case, there is a lack of […]
263. What Building Zion Requires of Us – John Taylor Quote, 1879
Let us cultivate the spirit of love and kindness, and let every little unpleasantness be buried, let us forget the election difficulty and our neighbor’s difficulty, and be one, brethren and sisters together, united in building up Zion and establishing the Kingdom of God upon the earth. – John Taylor, 3/2/1879
261. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis, Brigham Young, 1872
But I wish now to impress on the minds of the people the necessity of our taking a course to be able to exist and to sustain ourselves—to have something to eat and wear—hats to put on our heads, and coats, mantles, blankets, vests, shirts, garments and other things suitable to wear and to make […]
259. What Zion is and is not, Wilford Woodruff, 1873
This is the work and kingdom of God; this is the Zion of God and the Church of Christ…. When I look at the history of the Church of God in these latter days I many times marvel at what has been done and how we have progressed, considering the traditions, unbelief, failings, follies and […]
258. What Building Zion Requires of Us, John Taylor, 1881
Brethren and sisters, let us be virtuous and pure and holy, and God will bless us and lift us up and the power of God will be with us; and we will rejoice upon the mountains; and we will build our Zion upon the principles of righteousness, and we will love and fear God all […]
257. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis, Wilford Woodruff, 1873
Some of the daughters of Zion do not seem willing to forsake the fashions of Babylon. I to such would say hasten it, and let the woe that is threatened on this account come, that we may get through with it, then we can go on and build up the Zion of God on the […]
254. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis, Stephen L Richards, 1951
There is no fence around Zion or the world, but to one of discernment, they are separated more completely than if each were surrounded with high unscalable walls. Their underlying concepts, philosophies, and purposes are at complete variance one with the other. The philosophy of the world is self-sufficient, egotistical, materialistic, and skeptical. The philosophy […]
249. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis, Erastus Snow, 1877
Now the Latter-day Saints are gathering from all nations and tongues, with divers customs and habits and traditions, and we have brought them with us, unfortunately we could not leave ourselves behind, while we gathered to Zion. Having brought ourselves along we have the labor of separating the follies of Babylon, the traditions of the […]
245. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis, George Q. Cannon, 1872
We are told by the Revelator John, that a time would come when the people of God should be commanded to come out of Babylon, out of confusion, when they should be gathered out from every nation, from the remotest parts of the earth, and when he should make of them a great and mighty […]
244. Economic Unity, Brigham Young, 1874
You hear a good deal from time to time, and you think a good deal, about the condition of the Latter-day Saints, and what we are trying to do with them concerning the United Order….. Thus saith the Lord unto my servant Brigham, Call ye, call ye, upon the inhabitants of Zion, to organize themselves […]