Faith & Spirit Quote by Brigham Young

Religious confidence is easy to mistake for religious combat, and Brigham Young is trying to redirect that impulse into something more useful: persuasion by construction, not demolition by ridicule. The line has the canny pragmatism of a leader building a fragile society. On the American frontier, where denominations competed for converts and legitimacy, picking fights over “other people’s religion” wasn’t just bad manners; it was bad strategy. It hardened enemies, invited retaliation, and made a minority movement look paranoid.

Young’s phrasing is doing quiet rhetorical work. “Tear down…about their ears” conjures public humiliation, the kind of loud, street-corner anti-preaching that turns faith into a brawl. Against that, “Build up your own…structure of truth” shifts religion into architecture: durable, visible, inhabitable. A “structure” implies coherence and community, not just doctrine. It also implies labor. Truth here is not merely asserted; it’s erected, maintained, and made persuasive by the way it stands.

The subtext is an invitation with boundaries. “Invite your listeners” sounds pluralist and generous, but the invitation assumes you possess “perfect” truth and that others are guests in your house. That’s not relativism; it’s confident outreach dressed in civility. For a movement often caricatured and persecuted, the message doubles as reputational advice: if you want to win people, project stability, not contempt. The “glories” are meant to be experienced, not argued into submission - a marketing pitch before marketing had a name.