Joseph Smith

“Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.”

“The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.”

“An angel of God never has wings.”

“No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.”

“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.”

“We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.”

“Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.”

“Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.”

“Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.”

“Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.”

“One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.”

“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.”

“I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.”

“We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.”

“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.”