Desires

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  • Brigham Young, "Building Up Zion, Etc.", Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, p. 156

"It is beneath the intelligence and understanding of the man of God ever to be filled with foolish and vain desires."

  • Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 89

The Prophet, Joseph Smith, remarked to the Apostles and his counselors that they had "not desired as much from the Lord through faith and obedience, as [they] ought to have done".