George Q. Cannon Quotes

Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

My moral obligation is to God. I won't curse in God's name.

World needs more angels, even plywood ones.

The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from [God], and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority?-\-\that your life is due to him?-\-\that whatever you do ought to have reference to him.

The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.

Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. They have kept their first estate far enough to preserve themselves in the Priesthood. They did not so violate the law of the Priesthood and condemn themselves to the sin against the Holy Ghost as to be finally lost. They are not crowned with the celestial ones. They are persons who have lived upon an earth, but did not magnify the Priesthood in that high degree that many others have done who have become Gods, even the sons of God.

What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus.

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.

Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

Every angel is terrifying.

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name." Patch to Pepper

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.