John Taylor famous quotes

03-24-2025

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.
-- John Taylor

#Children #Men #Mysterious
I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth
-- John Taylor

#Earth
If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.
-- John Taylor

#Prayer #Work #Men
Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and eternity.
-- John Taylor

#Life #Trust #Time
If we take good care of one another, God will take care of us.
-- John Taylor

#Care #Take Care #Gods Will
If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.
-- John Taylor

#Missionary #Calling #Done
We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.
-- John Taylor

#Honesty #Believe #Exercise
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.
-- John Taylor

#Writing #Men #Doctors
And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.
-- John Taylor

#Thank You #Thanksgiving #Thankfulness
We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief.
-- John Taylor

#Heart #Belief #Action
If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power also; and a government becomes as certainly aristocratical, by a monopoly of wealth, as by a monopoly of arms. A minority, obtaining a majority of wealth or arms in any mode, becomes the government.
-- John Taylor

#Government #Hands #Majority
The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.
-- John Taylor

#Men #Needs #Tails
Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us
-- John Taylor

#Men #Missionary #Duty
There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.
-- John Taylor

#Ocean #Lakes #Shipping
In fact he enables us not by making us supernaturally strong, but by opening our eyes. The Holy Spirit is that power which opens eyes that are closed, hearts that are unaware and minds that shrink from too much reality.
-- John Taylor

#Strong #Eye #Heart
Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.
-- John Taylor

#Peace #Over You #Religion
Tis a mad world, my masters.
-- John Taylor

#Mad #World #Mental Illness
By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.
-- John Taylor

#Teacher #Children #College
I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I have changed my mind on that subject. Now I think I would, if I were the Lord, because it purges out the meanness and corruption that stick around the saints, like flies around molasses.
-- John Taylor

#Change #Thinking #People
Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.
-- John Taylor

#Work #Zion #Causes
I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting, and those who will enter into my glory must obey the conditions thereof; Even so Amen.
-- John Taylor

#Law #Glory #Amen
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.
-- John Taylor

#Men #Receiving #Dignity
It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.
-- John Taylor

#Men #Perfect #Suffering
When Jesus sent forth his servants formerly he sent them to preach this Gospel. When the Father and the Son and Moroni and others came to Joseph Smith, he had a priesthood conferred upon him which he conferred upon others for the purpose of manifesting the laws of life, the Gospel of the Son of God, by direct authority, that light and truth might be spread forth among all nations.
-- John Taylor

#Jesus #Father #Son
If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.
-- John Taylor

#Mean #Government #Unions

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