The Moral Liberal

A Way of Life, Brigham Young

So live that when you wake in the spirit-world you can truthfully say, “I could not better my mortal life, were I to live it over again.” I exhort you, for the sake of the House of Israel, for the sake of Zion which we are to build up, to so live, from this time, henceforth, and forever, that your characters may with pleasure be scrutinized by holy beings. Live godly lives, which you cannot do without living moral lives.

Quote found in “Discourses of Brigham Young,” p. 370. Brigham Young (1801–1877) served as sec­ond pres­i­dent of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the founder of Salt Lake City, and first gov­er­nor of Utah Territory.