Devil's Gate Quotes

“Like Stalin deposing Trotsky, the supremely Machiavellian Brigham Young at once set about discrediting his rival.”
― David Roberts, Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy

“Smith made the mistake of curing, in front of his congregation, a woman with a paralyzed arm. When the doubters later challenged him to perform other cures, he failed to make a lame man walk or to revive a dead child.”
― David Roberts, Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy

“There was no more propitious time or place in American history for the concoction of new religions. During the first decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were hungry for millennial proofs that God was among us, watchful, punitive of sinners, but promising abundant and imminent rewards to the righteous. The whole country was lurching in violent counterreaction against the irreligion and moral looseness of Tom Paine’s Age of Reason”
― David Roberts, Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy