Brigham Young Quotes

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

A good physician goes to be helpful where there is most sickness. So a good philosopher should be where there is most stupidity

Any time I found a new piece of knowledge or wisdom, I would thank Allah for it. Then Allah would bless me with more of it.

You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God.

Nothing you do makes much of a difference if you do not have charity. You can speak with tongues, have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries, and possess all knowledge; even if you have the faith to move mountains, without charity it won't profit you at all.... Without charity-or the pure love of Christ-whatever else we accomplish matters little. With it, all else becomes vibrant and alive.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured or wounded us. We are actually pleading for our very natures to be changed, for our character and disposition to become more and more like the Savior's, so that we literally feel as He would feel and thus do what He would do.

The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

All ignorance is the lack of love.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

Kindness is our religion.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer. We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours in the study.