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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• We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  United States, Constitution, Standards

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• When we are accomplishing the good, the greatest opposition comes.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Opposition

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• We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.

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  Temples, Building, Lord

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• Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Doctrine, Mormonism

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• The standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Independent, Army

  "History of the Church", 4:540, March 1, 1842.

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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.

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  Heart, Government, Zion

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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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• Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Independent, Missionary, May

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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.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Courage, Exercise, Mountain

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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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• The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Race, Needs, Done

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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.

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  Children, Father, Teaching

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

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Fire, Flood

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• God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

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  Men, Light, Giving

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• Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

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  Happiness, Design, Joy

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• I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves.

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  Principles, Teach, Personal Revelation

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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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• We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Views, Doe, Eternity

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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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• It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and “the righteous shall hardly escape.” …So that is an unhallowed principle to say that such and such have transgressed because they have been preyed upon by disease or death, for all flesh is subject to death; and the Savior has said, “judge not, lest ye be judged.

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  Ideas, Judging, Suffering

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• I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

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  Hypocrite, Men, Long

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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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• Kindness is our religion.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Kindness

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