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...
book blessing corn
Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and pray over, and for your families, your cattle, your flocks, your herds, your corn, and all things that you possess [see Alma 34:18-27]; ask the blessing of God upon all your labors, and everything that you engage in.
book giving judgment
The Book of Mormon is true, just what it purports to be, and for this testimony I expect to give an account in the day of judgment.
forgiveness heart sin
Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.
jesus world christ
Salvation could not come to the world without the mediation of Jesus Christ.
book men religion
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
eye blessing people
We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.
principles teach personal-revelation
I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves.
men knows
No man knows my history.
doubt
Where doubt is, there faith has no power.