161 Quotes by Joseph Smith Jr.

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

Sometimes the Lord brings us low before he can lift us higher.

I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.

After all that has been said, the greatest and most important duty is to preach the Gospel.

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.

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.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.