This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly.

How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord witnessing unto our spirit that we are His, that we love Him, and that He loves us. It is by the spirit of revelation we know this.

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.

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

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

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.