Joseph Smith, Jr. Quotes - Page 7

It is a time-honored adage that love begats love...cast your bread upon the waters and ye shall receive it after many days, increased to a hundredfold.

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

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 the Holy Ghost. Baptism by water is but half a baptism, and is good for nothing without the other half-that is, baptism of the Holy Ghost.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.

It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.

And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me. Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land.

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 was the convincing power of God unto him of the truth of the Gospel, but he could not receive the gift of the Holy Ghost until after he was baptized. Had he not [been baptized], the Holy Ghost which convinced him of the truth of God, would have left him.

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.

According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I [the Lord] have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles.

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

Therefore let the Saints be diligent in building the Temple, and all houses which they have been, or shall hereafter be, commanded of God to build; and wait their time with patience in all meekness, faith, perseverance unto the end.

The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!

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 of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth.

That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God.

Shall we not go on in such great a cause?

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 precious clothing, and the harlots, are the desires of this great and abominable church.

Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were.