Biography at a glance
- Profile: American mathematician and Mormon religious leader (1811–1881)
- Life: 1811–1881
- Quotes in this collection: 5
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The available biographical record identifies Orson Pratt through the role above. This collection includes 5 quotations credited to Orson Pratt. Each quotation page preserves its own citation, when supplied, so readers can follow the passage back to its stated context.
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Quotes by Orson Pratt
5 quotes
. . . the earth will be baptized with fire, and wickedness swept away from its face, so that the glory of God shall cover it. As the waters cover the great deep, so will the earth be overwhelmed and immersed in the glory of God, and His Spirit be poured out upon all flesh, before the earth dies. After this purifying ordinance, there will be a thousand years of rest, during which righteousness shall abound upon the face of the earth; . . .
Journal of Discourses, 1, p. 292
— Orson Pratt
“Could wicked and malicious beings, who had irradiated every feeling of love form their bosoms, be permitted to propagate their species, the offspring would partake of all the evil, wicked, and malicious nature of their parents. . . . It is for this reason that God will not permit the fallen angels to multiply: it is for this reason that God has ordained marriages for the righteous only: it is for this reason that God will put a final stop to the multiplication of the wicked after this life: it is for this reason that none but those who have kept the celestial law will be permitted to multiply after the resurrection.”
“Power and Eternity of the Priesthood,” The Seer, 1853, 156–57.
— Orson Pratt
“One object [of the Church] is declared to be “For the perfecting of the Saints.” … The … plan … for the accomplishment of this great object, is through the medium of the spiritual gifts. When the supernatural gifts of the Spirit cease, the Saints cease to be perfected, therefore they can have no hopes of obtaining a perfect salvation….In every nation and age, where believers exist, there the gifts must exist to perfect them.”
— Orson Pratt
“The sacred books kept in the archives of eternity are to be opened in the great judgment day, and compared with the records kept on the earth; and then, if it is found that things have been done by the authority and commandment of the Most High, in relation to the dead, and the same things are found to be recorded both on earth and in heaven, such sacred books will be opened and read before the assembled universe in the day of judgment, and will be sanctioned by Him who sits on the throne and deals out justice and mercy to all of his creation.”
Journal of Discourses
— Orson Pratt
“Water baptism is only a preparatory cleansing of the believing penitent….whereas, the Baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost cleanses more thoroughly, by renewing the inner man, and by purifying the affections, desires, and thoughts which have long been habituated in the impure ways of sin.”
“The Holy Spirit,” 49–64, in Orson Pratt: The Writings of an Apostle, Mormon Collector Series, vol. 2 (Salt Lake City: Mormon Heritage, 1976), 57.
— Orson Pratt
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