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1/19/01
"The first thing we should teach our
children is respect for all human beings. All are children of God.
Man is made in the image of God. Respect for all men leads to a love
for law and order. In the home is taught obedience to the loving
directions of our Father in heaven, Then comes self-discipline,
self-direction. Whether we are teachers of the gospel or
professional men, we can and should dedicate ourselves to help our
children to develop their potentialities for good, for truth, for
love, for beauty, and above all, reverence for God." - Levi
Edgar Young, "Conference Report," April 1955, Third Day—Morning
Meeting p. 60
9/9/08
"I
have been asked what compromises 'Mormonism'
will make with the world? I reply, no compromise when it comes to the
fundamental principles of religion, for they are of God, and no one
has a right to compromise the eternal truths of God. They belong to
Him. We have no right to say we will compromise with man. So I pray
that we may hold up these eternal truths. There is no compromise in
God's principles and holy laws. There can't be, they are of God; and
we have seen the 'gleam,'
and we must follow the 'gleam'
according to the will of God for all His children."
- Elder Levi Edgar Young, Conference Report, April 1922, Closing
Session, p.155
12/11/08
"In
this day of mad rush and strife; when noise and glitter influence the
human mind; this mighty rushing to and fro; this clash of many strifes;
this feverish hastening towards some unknown goal; Jesus Christ gives
the intelligible answer in revealing the infinite possibilities of the
human soul. The leaven of his doctrine is ever working in the social
body of which we are part, and his influence leads the van in every
forward movement for the welfare of mankind. It is a plain fact of
history that the influence of Jesus Christ upon the world has opened up
vast tracks of spiritual opportunity of which the wisest men have never
dreamed. He has uplifted and enriched the common life; he has filled the
soul with immortal hope. He has brought peace to the desolate heart; he
has made the quest for truth a divine adventure. He has made known the
abiding joy of service for others; and most of all he has justified the
upward reach of man, as he struggles from lower to higher things, which
shows that Christ brings life and
light into the hearts of men." - Levi
Edgar Young, "Conference Report," April 1930, Afternoon Meeting, p.158
1/16/09
"What
we term missionary work is not limited to personal effort. Nations are
missionaries. Our mission today is to act. We must advance the cause
of the restored gospel by our onward march to greater accomplishments.
No one can measure the years to come. To be alive and increasing, to
be young and awake, this is the order of the future. The heroes and
divinities of the past have their own place. but we have our leaders
today. There is perspective in prophecy. A prophet of old
declared: 'Your young men
shall see visions. Your sons and daughters shall prophecy.'
Today it is superbly true. If there was ever a time that the world
needs vision, it is today." - Levi
Edgar Young, "Conference
Report," October 1948,
Afternoon Meeting, p.97
3/29/09
"Like
the Bible, the Book of Mormon shows God at work in the life of the
human race. Its supreme revelation is of the human heart, and life
touched by the Spirit of God. Its power and value is this, and it is
from beginning to end a book of life. It becomes in this light,
colorful, gripping, vivid, laying its hold on our imaginations and our
souls. It inspires, it lifts our minds to God, and herein is its
power."
- Levi Edgar Young, "Conference Report,"
October 1928, Third Day—Morning Meeting, p.106
4/4/10
“Man needs a long vision in life that he may fulfill a pattern of
eternal progression and salvation although the strains and tenseness
of daily living favor short sight. Perhaps both are necessary, but the
one should not crowd out the other more realistic and basic one. The
man who is trying earnestly and with all his strength to catch sight
of the vision of a better world, and to incorporate what he can see in
the life of himself and his society, helps us to do what we could not
do without his help. We can raise ourselves on the shoulders of those
who have walked on higher levels. There is a profound wisdom in the
saying, ‘Let us now praise famous men.’ This is what is meant by the
warning of the prophets, ‘Lift up your hearts.’ Learn of the greatness
and goodness of prophets and leaders in trying to follow their
teachings.” - Levi Edgar Young,
“Conference Report,” April 1952, Second Day—Morning Meeting, p. 54
6/15/10
"In the day when the Prophet
Joseph Smith lived, the divisions of Christendom were seen. His going
into the woods to pray was a divine act, for through the deep faith of
the boy, God spoke to him. We all know the story. God reestablished his
Church, the priesthood of God was restored by John the Baptist, and
Peter, James, and John. They came again to earth as resurrected beings.
Thus Joseph Smith came to understand the supreme test of religion --
revelation. Religion as a purely human product, valuable at it is to
human life and progress, has not the inner vigor to retain a place of
commanding power. Religion requires revelation. 'The completest carrier
of revelation can be no other, or less, than a chosen personality.' This
was the Christian conception in the beginning. So we have the restored
gospel today. The Church has its priesthood with its Apostles,
seventies, and all the other offices in the Holy Priesthood of God." - Levi
Edgar Young, "Conference Report," April 1950, p. 65
6/24/10
"When God placed man in the Garden of
Eden, and man was shown his destiny, the Creator planted within his soul
the power to look up and to find his Maker through the power of faith.
This gave man a splendor of spirit, which is the greatest power of all;
because only by the spirit can absolute truth be known. This gift of
faith places man in an enviable position for the exercise of his mental
powers. Throughout all the ages, man has felt the still small voice of
the Almighty in his daily life. Our lives must needs be deeply
penetrated with a sense of the infinite God; and this infinite, true,
and living God can only be known by our approach to him in the humility
of our powers. We must again learn to worship and to glorify." - Levi
Edgar Young, "Conference Report," October 1932, Second Day—Morning
Meeting, p. 58
12/13/12
We have been told to purify
ourselves, to come closer to the perfect ideal which Jesus our
Redeemer taught. The path is straight before us. We must love God; we
must love our neighbor; we must do unto others as we would have them
do unto us. Our attention has been called to the Ten Commandments, the
Sermon on the Mount, the Lord's Prayer, the birth and resurrection of
Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. We must have faith in mankind, and the
divinity of man should be made known to our children. We must be more
determined than ever to fulfil the great task expected of us, to make
ourselves better, to make this a better world to live in, and to bring
mankind nearer to God. We have been taught that our salvation and the
salvation of all mankind is found in the true and everlasting gospel.
- Levi Edgar Young, Conference Report, October 1956, Afternoon
Meeting, p.119
1/17/13
There are three distinct things needed in the world today as forces to
spiritualize humanity. First, a revival and adherence to the Ten
Commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai; the second is a renewal of
faith in God the eternal father, and his son Jesus Christ; and the
third a divine knowledge that in this day and age of the world the
gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has been restored by
revelation. The priesthood, sacred in its gift, divine in its
influence, and spiritual in its character, has been given to man
directly by the power of God. These are the three great truths that
must be taught to the human race. - Levi Edgar Young, Conference
Report, October 1927, Afternoon Meeting, p.77
7/11/15
What the youth need today is to be stirred to a knowledge of God; to
understand that the sublimest thing of all life is the simple faith in
God the Father, in his Son Jess Christ, and in the Holy Ghost—the
greatest truth for you and me and yet the simplest. This is
fundamental, and if the youth can only get to see that after all,
civilization has always been based on religion and always will be, and
that the religion of God comes from one great fundamental source,
namely revelation—God is understood through knowledge, God is known
through revelation; and those two great principles, if they are known
and can be seen and understood, the faith of the youth then will grow
and they will always know that after all, morality, the richness of
life, the sublimity of all things, lie in the simple Gospel of Christ.
It is beautiful this Gospel, for truth is beauty, and beauty is truth.
- Levi Edgar Young, "Conference Report," April 1932, Afternoon
Meeting, p. 77
1/3/16
My brethren and sisters, it is
religion that must solve the problems of our civilization today, and
if we do not go back to God and the religion of the Master, our
western civilization is destined to be destroyed. Religion at its
best has supplied, and it can now supply, "the motives, faiths,
insights, hopes, convictions, by which men inwardly come to terms
with themselves and with their fellow men." We must come to a new
spiritual ascendency over our baser selves. To achieve peace in this
world of ours, this will have to be done. - Levi
Edgar Young, "Conference Report," October 1936, Second Day-Morning
Meeting, p.67
6/30/16
Read the Bible to get not only great truths of living but also great
feeling and enlarged vision. Read it to get the depths of life. Make
it your companion through life so that you may not live only on the
surface, but on permanent effect. Do likewise with the Book of
Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price.
Religion is the greatest instrument for raising us to the best of
the highest life. - Levi Edgar
Young, “Conference Report,” April 1952, Second Day-Morning
Meeting, p.54