The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.

I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.

He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

When I look upon the faces of intelligent beings I look upon the image of the God I serve. There are none but what have a certain portion of divinity within them; and though we are clothed with bodies which are in the image of our God, yet this mortality shrinks before that portion of divinity which we inherit from our Father.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.