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...
victory causes goes-on
Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!
dirty hands towels
The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.
curiosity doe appease
Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.
views doe eternity
We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.
hands knowing use
[W]e shall have the satisfaction of knowing that we have acted conscientiously, and have used our best judgment. And if we have to throw away our votes, we had better do so upon a worthy rather than an unworthy individual who might make use of the weapon we put in his hand to destroy us.
people heaven superstitions
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.
country men saint
Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.
party political panic
Our nation, which possesses greater resources than any other, is rent, from center to circumference, with party strife, political intrigues, and sectional interest; our counselors are panic stricken, our legislators are astonished, and our senators are confounded.
religious mean men
I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution....The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground. Although it provides that all men shall enjoy religious freedom, yet it does not provide the manner by which that freedom can be preserved, nor for the punishment of Government officers who refuse to protect the people in their religious rights, punish those mobs, states, or communities who interfere with the rights of the people on account of their religion. Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them.
loss faithful vision
All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.
son love-is deities
Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God...
men heaven truth-revealed
Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men.
men faults human-nature
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.
fire flood
Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.