Joseph Smith, Jr.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Joseph Smith, Jr.was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon. By the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religious culture that continues to the present...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth23 December 1805
CountryUnited States of America
lord made command
I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it.
independent missionary may
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent...
doubt
Where doubt is, there faith has no power.
howl
How I do love to hear the wolves howl!
ends
That which has a beginning will surely have an end.
principles stand-alone salvation
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.
heart all-time careful
We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.
secret masonry
The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.
race needs done
The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.
trials endure wells
My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.
men heaven hell
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.
spiritual heart eye
It is vain to try and hide a bad spirit from the eyes of them who are spiritual, for it will show itself in speaking and in writing as well as in all other conduct, it is also useless to make great pretensions when the heart is not right before God, for God looks at the heart, and where the heart is not right the Lord will expose it to the view of the faithful.
darkness doubt doe
Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.
fundamentals principles mormonism
Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism