Brigham Young Quotes

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

I wish to join the Legion of Decency, which condemns vile and unwholesome moving pictures. I unite with all who protest against them as a grave menace to youth, to home life, to country and to religion. I condemn absolutely those salacious motion pictures which, with other degrading agencies, are corrupting public morals and promoting a sex mania in our land ... considering those evils, I hereby promised to remain away from all motion pictures except those which do not offend decency and Christian morality.

To the Puritan all things are impure.

The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

My aim is just to remain as humble and as godly as I can be.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.