Our motive is to make every man and woman to know just as much as we
do; this is the plan of the Gospel, and this is what I would like to
do. I would like all the Latter-day Saints to come up to this standard,
and know as much as I do, and then just as much more as they can learn,
and if they can get ahead of me, all right. 19:96.
We declare it to all the inhabitants of the earth from the valleys in
the tops of these mountains that we are the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints--not a church but the Church--and we have the
doctrine of life and salvation for all the honest-in-heart in all the
world. 12:173. {12}
This Gospel will save the whole human family; the blood of Jesus will
atone for our sins, if we accept the terms he has laid down; but we
must accept those terms or else it will avail nothing in our behalf.
_A Guide in Daily Life_--I reduce the Gospel to the present time,
circumstances and condition of the people. 10:1.
That system that brings present security and peace is the best to live
by, and the best to die by; it is the best for doing business; it is
the best for making farms, for building cities and temples, and that
system is the law of God. But it requires strict obedience. The rule
of right, and the line which God has drawn for the people to walk
by insures peace, comfort, and happiness now and eternal glory and
exaltation; but nothing short of strict obedience to God's law will do
this. 13:241.
We do not allow ourselves to go into a field to plough without taking
our religion with us; we do not go into an office, behind the counter
to deal out goods, into a counting house with the books, or anywhere to
attend to or transact any business without taking our religion with us.
If we are railroading or on a pleasure trip our God and our religion
must be with us. We are the most religious people in the world; but we
are not so enthusiastic as some are. We have seen plenty of enthusiasm,
but we do not care about it. Said I, "This shouting and singing one's
self away to everlasting bliss, may be all very well in its place, but
this alone is folly to me; my religion is to know the will of God and
do it." 14:118.
With God, and also with those who understand the principles of life
and salvation, the Priesthood, the oracles of truth and the gifts and
callings of God to the children of men, there is no difference in
spiritual and temporal {13} labors--all are one. If I am in the line of
my duty, I am doing the will of God, whether I am preaching, praying,
laboring with my hands for an honorable support; whether I am in the
field, mechanic's shop, or following mercantile business, or wherever
duty calls, I am serving God as much in one place as another; and so it
is with all, each in his place, turn and time. 13:260.
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