[D]o you want to be useful? If you do, take a course to be so, for this will bring us to the point where we can build up Zion and be of one heart and of one mind, and it will lead us to do all that we do in the name, in the love, […]
Quotes
96. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1863
"Let us be just, merciful, faithful and true, and let us live our religion, and we shall be taught all things pertaining to the building up of Zion. Let us train our minds until we delight in that which is good, lovely and holy, seeking continually after that intelligence which will enable us effectually to […]
94. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1863
“Let us look at our neighbors as they are, and not as we want them to be; let us learn enough to know what we are ourselves and what our brethren and sisters are, and learn the true designs of their hearts, and then judge them as God judges them and not according to outward […]
88. Economic Unity, Brigham Young, 1867
The title of Brigham Young’s discourse dated 2/3/1867 shows how he valued economic unity: “How Saints Should Order Their Vocation of Life. How Employ Their Wealth. To Build Up Zion, and not Babylon. Counsel of the Prophet Joseph. Prophet Brigham Young’s Experience Therein. Importance of Union in Things Temporal and Spiritual, Religious and Political.”
84. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1860
We are all sinners, and it is our duty to cast sin from us when we learn what it is. If we are a little good, become a little better; if we have a little light, get a little more; if we have a little faith, add to it; and by-and-by we shall be prepared […]
83. Zion Prophesied, Brigham Young, 1860
…this is the time the Lord has fixed for building up his Zion—that this is the time spoken of by the Prophets in which the Saints are commanded to gather out from the wicked. – Brigham Young, 6/7/1860
79. Economic Unity, Brigham Young, 1863
If any of the Twelve are not capable of supporting themselves, we shall help them; and it is our duty to do so, and it is the duty of the people to have it on hand to be applied in this and in every other way suggested in the law of God for the building […]
77. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1862
I do not wish you to carry away a wrong impression of our true situation before the heavens relative to perfection. For you to be perfect, in one sense of the word, is to be prepared to inherit eternal glory in the presence of the Father and the Son. Should any mortal attain to this […]
75. Babylon and it’s Traditions, George A. Smith, 1861
It is well understood that the human race have been traditioned to the utmost extreme that tradition could possibly be impressed in the human breast, in the practice of covetousness, the worship of money, the love of earthly goods, the desire to possess property, to control wealth, has been planted in the breast, soul, and […]
Zion’s Redemption Will Come When WE Prepare Ourselves
I was encouraged to keep reading “The Triumph of Zion” by a friend after being turned off by an idea that the author, John Pontius, repeats several times in the first chapter. GLAD I KEPT READING! He has some great quotes by authoritative sources like this one by Elder McConkie: “…the redemption of Zion… will […]
59. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1861
The Lord is building up Zion, and is emptying the earth of wickedness, gathering his people, bringing again Zion, redeeming his Israel, sending forth his work, withdrawing his Spirit from the wicked world, and commencing to build up his kingdom. Can this be done without revelation? No. You will not make a move, or do […]
58. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1861
You can read in the writings of the ancient Prophets that the Lord is going to bring again Zion. The Prophet said that very quickly: it took him not more than half a minute. Let me ask the Latter-day Saints, How long will it take this people to fulfil that short sentence? How can they, […]
51. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1861
We must be pure to be prepared to build up Zion. To all appearance, the Lord is preparing that end of the route faster than we are preparing ourselves to go there. – Brigham Young, 7/28/1861
Dang! Guess I Need to Repent of Shopping at Walmart!
Apostle George Q. Cannon, on 26 August 1883: “There is a class of people among us who have thought more of money than they have about Zion. They have gone where they could get the best bargains regardless of the effect it would have on the public weal. They only looked to their individual benefit […]
49. Babylon and it’s Traditions, Brigham Young, 1860
I will gather the poor and build up Zion, while the course of others wastes and destroys. – Brigham Young, 9/16/1860
41. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Heber C. Kimball, 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