Joseph Smith
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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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Our minds being now enlightened, we began to have the Scripture laid open to our understandings, and the true meaning and intention of the more mysterious passages revealed unto us in a manner which we never could attain to previously . . .
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I think we're in good shape. Harbor's always a formidable opponent. We'll have to be ready to play.
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I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.
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Kindness is our religion.
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Shall we not go on in such great a cause?
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By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.
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Whatever happens, the Lord is in it.
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We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.
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Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear..
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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.