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...
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
patriotism flavor habitat
The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.
country independent army
The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.
kings intelligent order
God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation to advance in knowledge. He has power to institute laws to instruct the weaker intelligences, that they may be exalted with Himself, so that they might have one glory upon another, and all that knowledge, power, glory, and intelligence, which is requisite in order to save them in the world of spirits. (King Follett Discourse)
constitution-of-the-united-states standards glorious
We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.
views soul virtue
Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other.
children government often-is
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.