Joseph Smith, Jr. Quotes - Page 4

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• An angel of God never has wings.

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  Angel, Wings

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• We came to this earth that we might have a body and present it pure before God in the celestial kingdom. The great principle of happiness consists in having a body. The devil has no body, and herein is his punishment. He is pleased when he can obtain the tabernacle of man. . . . All beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.

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  Men, Devil, Might

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• Hence we say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner; it is to all those who are privileged with the sweets of liberty, like the cooling shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and weary land. It is like a great tree under whose branches men from every clime can be shielded from the burning rays of the sun.

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  Sweet, Freedom, Men

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• I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .

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  Government, Israel, Years

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• The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.

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  Secret, Masonry

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• No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

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  Honesty, Kingdoms, Honest

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• I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.

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  Friendship, Men, Perfect

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, 5:181, 1932.

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• . . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

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  Purity, Should, Meekness

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• We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.

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  Jesus, Children, May

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• Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.

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  Freedom, People, Crumbling

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• Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

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  Law, Church, Members

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• [God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of His law and ordinances.

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  Law, Giving, People

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• God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what he will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them.

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  Twelve, Saint, May

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• That which has a beginning will surely have an end.

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  Ends

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• It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.

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  Sound, Influence, Duty

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• Mormons can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for a Mormon; If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon I am bold to declare before heaven that I am just as ready to die for a Presbyterian, a baptist or any other denomination.

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  Heaven, Baptists, Denominations

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• We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love the rights the Constitution guarantees to every citizen. What did the Prophet Joseph say? When the Constitution shall be tottering we shall be the people to save it from the hand of the foe.

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  Country, Freedom, America

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• You will live to see men arise in power in the Church who will seek to put down your friends and the friends of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Many will be hoisted because of their money and worldly learning which they seem to be in possession of; and many who are the true followers of our Lord and Savior will be cast down because of their poverty.

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  Jesus, Men, Church

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• I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.

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  Errors, Perfect, Taught

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• Surely I have contemplated the things of God.

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• I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.

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  Jesus, Men, Church

  "History of the Church", 6:408, May 26, 1844.

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• The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead. The apostle says, 'They without us cannot be made perfect'; for it is necessary that the sealing power should be in our hands to seal our children and our dead for the fulness of the dispensation of times-a dispensation to meet the promises made by Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world for the salvation of man.

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  Jesus, Children, Responsibility

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• Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself.

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  Men, Helping, Neighbor

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• To get salvation we must not only do some things, but everything which God has commanded...The object with me is to obey and teach others to obey God in just what he tells us to do. It mattereth not whether the principle is popular or unpopular; I will always maintain a true principle even if I stand alone in it.

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  Principles, Stand Alone, Salvation

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• Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults.

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  Giving Up, Toil, May

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