Quote#World
My sisters, let us cultivate ourselves, that we may be capable of…
Quote byEliza Roxcy Snow · 1804–1887
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech to the Salt Lake City Seventeenth Ward Relief Society, Union Hall, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, February 18, 1869, compiled in chapter 10 of At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women (Church Historian's Press, 2017)..
English (original)
My sisters, let us cultivate ourselves, that we may be capable of doing much good. We are daughters of our Heavenly Father, and our position as Saints of the Most High is at the head of the world.
— Eliza Roxcy Snow
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