Joseph Smith, Jr.
An angel of God never has wings.Collection: God
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.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Faith
If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.' and 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.Collection: God
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.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Truth
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.Collection: Religion
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!Collection: Trust
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.Collection: God
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.
If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
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.
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.
The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.
Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.
No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.
There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.
One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.
The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.
I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.
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.
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.
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.
Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.
If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.
A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledgeCollection: Men
Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.Collection: Darkness
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.Collection: Children
No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.Collection: Men
Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.Collection: Forgiveness
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.Collection: Heart
Wherefore a good name is better than riches.Collection: Names
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.Collection: Men
Kindness is our religion.Collection: Kindness
Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive.Collection: Father
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: God
I don't blame anyone for not believing me, if I had not experienced it myself, I would not have believed it myself.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Jesus
I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it.Collection: Lord
This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.Collection: Spiritual
Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and pray over, and for your families, your cattle, your flocks, your herds, your corn, and all things that you possess [see Alma 34:18-27]; ask the blessing of God upon all your labors, and everything that you engage in.Collection: Book
This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Ideas