Lorenzo Snow

“The Lord has not given us the law of tithing to make us poor, but to make us rich.”

“When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and find out what the trouble is, then try to remove it with the wisdom which the Lord bestows upon you.”

“Now is the time for every Latter-day Saint to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full.”

“There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the Spirit of God.”

“Let us be what we profess to be.”

“We should not worry about the future. We should not be anything but happy and rejoiced.”

“We have everything to encourage us, and nothing to discourage us.”

“We must learn to be righteous in the dark.”

“Let us work for the spirit of unity and love.”

“The best way to obtain the Spirit of God is to be humble.”

“Let us have peace, and in order to have it, let us be peacemakers.”

“As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be.”

“The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things.”