Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.
1853·Brigham Young·Prophet
With regard to the four different Reports of those judges, which were in existence at the same time, brother Bernhisel seems to wonder how they came. I know how they came. Some friends of those judges, thinking they could better the matter for them, were the authors of those extra Reports. But those friends found that the Reports did not answer their expectations, and those officers themselves would not acknowledge who wrote them. In this instance, they over-shot their mark, and foiled, in a signal manner, their own purposes.
1911·Joseph F. Smith·Prophet
It is a question whether silence should be maintained, as a sign of that contempt that is felt for those attacks and their authors by the objects of their spleen, but there are so many requests for replies, or at least explanations, for the benefit of inquiring minds, that perhaps it is proper that something should be officially stated for the good of the reading public.
1919·Orson F. Whitney·Apostle
Yes, it is a historical fact that Napoleon, the greatest artilleryman of the ages, had more cannon on the field of Waterloo than did Wellington or Blucher — but he could not use them. Our author continues :
1926·Orson F. Whitney·Apostle
The Fundamentalists, with whom I class myself and all Latterday Saints, in a general way, are those who adhere to the old and established belief that Jesus Christ was the very Son of God, born of a virgin mother; that he was the author of the resurrection, the giver of eternal life, and withal a worker of miracles. We verily believe that he walked upon water, turned water into wine, healed the sick, cast out devils, gave sight to the blind, caused the lame to walk, and did many other mighty and marvelous works, all by virtue of the divine power within him.
1947·George Albert Smith·Prophet
As a fitting climax, there will be given in the University stadium, the opera pageant, "The Promised Valley," depicting through song and pageantry the history of the pioneers as told or experienced in the imagination of the author and musician through the people who made the trek.
1960·Spencer W. Kimball·Apostle
He will inspire hatred and admiration; he will build an empire and restore a church — the Church of Jesus Christ. Millions will follow him; monuments will be built to him; poets will sing of him; authors will write libraries of books about him.
