Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith
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...
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I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it.
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My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.
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Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.
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Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism
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The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.
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We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.
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I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force...thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly.
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. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.
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Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of my hold priesthood, but ye shall know when ye receive a fullness by reason of the anointing: For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and just, for even now their females are more virtuous then the gentiles.
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And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth...
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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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Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days
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We're struggling a little with that right now. We just need to keep working hard.
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When I have proved that I am right, and get all the world subdued under me, I think I shall deserve something.