Joseph Smith Jr.

Clergyman

1805-12-23

Quotes by Joseph Smith Jr.

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

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• An angel of God never has wings.

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• 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.

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