Joseph Smith, Jr. Quotes

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

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  Darkness, Doubt, Doe

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• Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward. A good man will endure all things to honor Christ, and even dispose of the whole world, and all in it, to save his soul.

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  Wise, Godly, Men

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• The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.

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  Saint, Purpose, His Love

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• Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

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  Happiness, Design, Joy

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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.

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  Country, Independent, Army

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

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• Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God... God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God" -John Taylor recalls the words of Joseph Smith to the Twelve. JS manual page 231

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  Heart, Men, Storm

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

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  Fire, Flood

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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.

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  Jesus, Ideas, Giving

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

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• There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.

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  Honesty, Giving, Devil

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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.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Prayer

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

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  Believe, Blame, Ifs

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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.

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  Book, Men, Religion

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

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• Kindness is our religion.

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  Kindness

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

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  Responsibility, Baptism, World

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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.

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  Forgiveness, Heart, Sin

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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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• 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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• A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

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  Men, Gains, Faster

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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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