Joseph Smith, Jr. Quotes

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• The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, Wisdom, Prayer

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• A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Gains, Faster

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• It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Children, Father, Teaching

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• Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Darkness, Doubt, Doe

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• Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Heart, Sin

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• You will see the constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread.... A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America.... [T]he land will be left without a Supreme Government,... [Mormonism] will have gathered strength, sending out Elders to gather the honest in heart... to stand by the Constitution of the United States.... In these days... God will set up a Kingdom, never to be thrown down.... [T]he whole of America will be made the Zion of God.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Government, Zion

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• Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

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  Courage, Exercise, Mountain

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• Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive.

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  Father, Believe, Views

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• Kindness is our religion.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Kindness

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• If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.

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  Character, Men, Character Of God

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• That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at another time He said, 'Thou shalt utterly destroy.' This is the principle on which the government of heaven is conducted—by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed. Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire.

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  Children, Government, Often Is

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• I don't blame anyone for not believing me, if I had not experienced it myself, I would not have believed it myself.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Believe, Blame, Ifs

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• The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Responsibility, Baptism, World

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• We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.

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  God, Faith, Christian

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• No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.

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  Men, Receiving, Ghost

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• I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Book, Men, Religion

  "History of the Church", 4:461, November 28, 1841.

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• Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

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  Fire, Flood

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• I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had seven wives.... I am innocent of all these charges.... What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers.

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  Men, Years, Wife

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• A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

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  Men, Blessing, Race

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• Wherefore a good name is better than riches.

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  Names, Riches

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• When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Ideas, Giving

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, 3:381, June 27, 1839.

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• The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Rose, Heaven

  "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", 121, May 8, 1838.

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• I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it.

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  Lord, Made, Command

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• If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.

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  Self, Life Is, My Friends

  "History of the Church", 6:549, June, 22 1844.

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• This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.

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  Spiritual, Wife, Taught

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