Joseph Smith, Jr. Quotes

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.

Wisdom, God, Best

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, Faith, Good

All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Vision, Faithful, Seen

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.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Faith, Love, Family

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Nature, Men, Human

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Fire, Before, Flood

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Down, Heaven

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.

Religion, God, Book

If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Life, Friends, Value

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Jesus, Christ, Pure

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Truth, May, Principles

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Religion, Book, Away

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Good, Feelings, Learned

The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Mind, Before

An angel of God never has wings.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Angel, Wings

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Honest, Unless, Kingdom

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Society, Hell, Commands

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Trust, Power, Person

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Work, God, Truth

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Church, Stay, Majority

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Greatest, After

Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Truth, Author

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Before, Purpose, Heaven

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Hell, Place, Whether

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: December 23, 1805

Died: June 27, 1844

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