Happiness Is The Object And Design Of

We Ought At All Times To Be Very Careful That High-mindedness Shall Never Have Place In Our Hearts.

While Other Men Were Peacefully Following Their Vocations And Extending Their Interests They [the Saints In Clay County] Have Been Deprived Of The Right Of Citizenship, Prevented From Enjoying Their Own, Charged With Violating The Sacred Principles Of Our Constitution And Laws.

Blessed Be The Memory Of Those Few Brethren Who Contended So Strenuously For Their Constitutional Rights And Religious Freedom, Against Such An Overwhelming Force Of Desperadoes!

You Might As Well Baptize A Bag Of Sand As A Man, If Not Done In View Of The Remission Of Sins And Getting Of The Holy Ghost. Baptism By Water Is But Half A Baptism, And Is Good For Nothing Without The Other Half-that Is, Baptism Of The Holy Ghost.

God Himself, Finding He Was In The Midst Of Spirits And Glory, Because He Was More Intelligent, Saw Proper To Institute Laws Whereby The Rest Could Have A Privilege To Advance Like Himself. The Relationship We Have With God Places Us In A Situation To Advance In Knowledge. He Has Power To Institute Laws To Instruct The Weaker Intelligences, That They May Be Exalted With Himself, So That They Might Have One Glory Upon Another, And All That Knowledge, Power, Glory, And Intelligence, Which Is Requisite In Order To Save Them In The World Of Spirits. (king Follett Discourse)