Love of Things

Brigham Young said, “There is too much love of the things of the world. There is more danger to be apprehended from this source than all the mobs that could be organized and brought in opposition.

Lust after the things of the world has ruined the most powerful nations…Wherever there existed a hunger for ease and wealth in place of a hunger for righteousness, sooner or later the parties thus inclined would lose the Spirit of God and go into darkness. After the lust for women, the greed for gain was next in order in its corrupting tendencies…

If we do not wake up and cease to long after the things of this earth, we will find that we as individuals will go down to hell, although the Lord will preserve a people unto himself…

I see men before me, in the St. George Temple that have no right to be there. They are corrupt in their hearts as they can be and we take them by the hand and call them brother…

Show some of the Elders of Israel according to their present conduct a dollar on one side and eternal life on the other and I fear they would choose the dollar.”

(Approaching Zion by Hugh Nibley, pg. 360-361)