Brigham Young Quotes

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.

God is in my heart; I see God in my daughter and my mother.

God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.

Let us open the doors to the Spirit, let ourselves be guided by him, and allow God's constant help to make us new men and women, inspired by the love of God which the Holy Spirit bestows on us! How beautiful it would be if each of you, every evening, could say: Today at school, at home, at work, guided by God, I showed a sign of love towards one of my friends, my parents, an older person! How beautiful!

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the term 'testimony' is a warm and familiar word in our religious expressions. It is tender and sweet. It has always a certain sacredness about it. When we talk about testimony, we refer to feelings of our heart and mind rather than an accumulation of logical, sterile facts.

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

Prayer is man's greatest power!

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.

It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is what it takes to be nourished by the good word of God.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them.