Francis M. Lyman Quotes

We mourn; we sorrow for our loved ones that go - our wives, our husbands, our children, our parents; we sorrow for them; and it is well and proper that we should moum for them and shed tears for the loss, for it is our loss; but it is their gain, for it is in the march of progress, advancement and development. It will be all right when our time comes, when we have finished our work and accomplished what the Lord required of us.

A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.

Celestial marriage is for the fullness of the glory of god. It is the crowning glory. A man has no right to one wife unless he is worthy of two.... There is no provision made for those who have had the chance & opperternity and have disregarded that law. Men who disregard that law are in the same situation as if they broke any other law. they are transgressors.

When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.

There is nothing more dangerous than idleness...In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety.

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

Children...will never go astray while they are in good company.