Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snowwas an American religious leader who served as the fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsfrom 1898 to his death. Snow was the last president of the LDS Church in the nineteenth century and the first in the twentieth...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 April 1814
CountryUnited States of America
gratitude want saint
If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude.
powerful gold saint
The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now, it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point. We have also got to reach another standard, a higher plane: we have got to love God more than we love the world, more than we love gold or silver, and love our neighbor as ourselves
pay saint lord
The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you...
cultivate father feeling heaven rest
We are no better than the rest of the world if we do not cultivate the feeling to be perfect, even as our Father in heaven is perfect.
grand lord means provided
This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.
heart thinking progress
Our being edified at conference depends on us. It becomes necessary that we prepare our hearts to receive and profit by the suggestions that may be made by the speakers during the progress of the conference, which may be prompted by the Spirit of the Lord. I have thought, and still think, that our being edified does not so much depend upon the speaker as upon ourselves.
hands land constitution
We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the Constitution of our land
mean dark light
We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.
dark men light
Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.
mistake father heart
We ought to feel in our hearts that God is our Father, and that while we make mistakes and are weak yet if we live as nearly perfect as we can all will be well with us.
blessing men law
The law of tithing is one of the most important ever revealed to man. . . . Through obeying this law the blessings of prosperity and success will be given to the Saints.
I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
blessing discouraged glorious
I have never seen the day when I was discouraged, as I could always see glorious blessings ahead.
believe men hands
We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the accomplishment of this object, raised them up and inspired them to frame the Constitution of the United States