Brigham Young Quotes

Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

When God's leading and directing, you don't have to kick the doors open.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.

The greatest blessings of mankind are the gifts of God … —the priesthood and the imperial authority. The priesthood ministers to things divine; the imperial authority is set over, and shows diligence in, things human …. Both adorn the life of man.

God has ordered poets to be the fiery pillars and so to lead the wandering people into Canaan’s promised land.

My heart's toward youth ministry, but I don't know. I never would have thought I would have written a book. And God kind of directed that. So we'll see what the next is.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.

Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.

When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.

Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time.

There is a difference between God as a sense of comfort, and God actually telling you what to do!

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

I am not the leader; I am a representative of the leader. The leader is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whom we believe is very much alive, and is directing me from where he is.

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.

During the primary, I heard the audible voice of God. … He said, 'Credibility.' It wasn't a thought in my head. I thought it meant I was going to win. But after the primary, I got credibility.

A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.