“I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth.”
(Deseret News Semi-Weekly,
June 10, 1884,
1.)
“There is no man living in and of himself, can guide the ship of Zion or regulate the affairs of the Church and kingdom of God unaided by the Spirit of God, and hence Hhe has organized the Church as He has with all the various quorums and organizations as they exist today.”
(The Gospel Kingdom,
sel. G. Homer Durham
(1943),
38.)
“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.”
(The Mediation and Atonement
[1882],
145.)
“We believe in the resurrection of the dead and in the life in the world to come; and not only in the resurrection of the male, but also of the female. We believe also in eternal unions, union on earth and in heaven. And as the heavens declare the glory of God, and the stellar universes roll on according to eternal laws implanted in them by the Deity, and perform their revolutions through successive ages, so will man progress and increase—himself, his wives, his children—through the eternities to come.”
(The Gospel Kingdom,
sel. G. Homer Durham
[1943],
14.)
“There are certain eternal laws by which the Gods in the eternal worlds are governed and which they cannot violate, and do not want to violate. These eternal principles must be kept, and one principle is that no unclean thing can enter into the kingdom of God.”
(The Gospel Kingdom,
sel. G. Homer Durham
[1943],
19.)
“The earth, as a part of the creation of God, has fulfilled and will fulfil the measure of its creation. It has been baptized by water, it will be baptized by fire; it will be purified and become celestial, and be a fit place for celestial bodies to inhabit. ”
(
“The Gathering,”
Times and Seasons,
Jan. 15, 1944,
408.)
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