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, […]
What Building Zion Requires of Us
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 […]
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
24. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1859
Let your whole soul—affections, actions, wishes, desires, every effort and motive, and every hour’s labor you perform be with a single eye to the building up the Zion of God on the earth. If you will pursue this course, you will learn every day and make advancements every hour. But when you so love your […]
21. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Orson Pratt, 1855
Much patience and forbearance will need to be exercised before the Saints will get completely rid of their old traditions, Gentile notions, and whims about property, so as to come to that perfect law required of them in the revelations of Jesus Christ. But the day will come when there will be no poor in […]
16. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1857
When the law is revealed to us and the ordinances committed to our charge, if we exercise ourselves therein according to the best knowledge and wisdom that we have, and continue so to do, God will add to us, until we shall know how to establish Zion in perfection, and have the kingdom of God, […]
15. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Daniel H. Wells, 1857
We hold ourselves ready to go at a moment’s warning to the uttermost parts of the earth to subserve the principles of our holy religion, by making them known to others, to save Israel and bring out those the Lord has scattered, to aid in building up Zion, and in building temples of the Most […]
9. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Daniel H. Wells, 1859
“Are we ready now to take hold with one heart and with one mind to man the ship Zion — build a temple for instance? Are you ready, by a skilful and judicious husbandry of the soil, to bring forth its rich fruits, and store them up until you are called upon to contribute your […]
8. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Lorenzo Snow
Brethren, your eye should be single to the glory of God, to hearkening to the counsel of brother Brigham, and to the building up of Zion, then your bodies would be filled with spirit, and your understandings with light, and your hearts with joy, and your souls would be quickened into eternal life with the […]
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7. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Jedediah M. Grant, 1854
“We may talk of making our own heaven, and of building up the city of Zion, and making it beautiful, and having it polished after the similitude of a palace, but we must have an experience in doing such a work, before we can accomplish it.” [emphases added] – Apostle Jedidiah M. Grant, 9/24/1854 In […]