Joseph Smith, Jr. Quotes

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• If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
• Happiness is the object and design of our existence.
• The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light…
• How precious are the souls of men!
• You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of…
• 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…
• In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world…
• 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,…
• There is a difference between the Holy Ghost and the gift of the Holy Ghost. Cornelius received the Holy Ghost before he was baptized, which…
• No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.
• And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of…
• The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more…
• And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the…
• Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and…
• The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.
• The heads (Plural) of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take that view of the subject, it sets one free to…
• When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it…
• If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.
• Baptism is a sign to God, to angels, and to heaven that we do the will of God, and there is no other way beneath…
• I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

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