“Now take a person in this congregation who has knowledge with regard to being saved … and suppose that he is overtaken in a gross fault, that he has committed a sin that he knows will deprive him of that exaltation which he desires, and that he cannot attain to it without the shedding of his blood, and also knows that by having his blood shed he will atone for that sin, and be saved and exalted with the Gods, is there a man or woman in this house but what would say, ‘shed my blood that I may be saved and exalted with the Gods?’”

Brigham Young – 8 February 1857, Journal of Discourses – Volume 4 (Liverpool, England: S.W. Richards, 1857), 219.