3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.
3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. 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.
3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. 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.
3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. 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.
3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. 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 whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!
