Born Again He Cannot See the Kingdom of God Joseph Smith

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of whatever volume on globe, and the keystone of our faith, and a human being would get nearer to God by abiding past its precepts, than past any other volume.

Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was the founder of The Church building of Jesus Christ of Latter-mean solar day Saints, Mormonism, and the Latter Day Saint movement.

Quotes [edit]

1830s [edit]

• Accept away the Volume of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
  • History of the Church building, 2:52 (21 April 1834)

• The cardinal principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose over again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.
  • Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 121 (viii May 1838)

• Truth is "Mormonism." God is the author of it.
  • History of the Church, three:297 (20 March 1839)

• We take learned past sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of nearly all men, every bit soon equally they get a little say-so, as they suppose, they volition immediately begin to practise unrighteous rule.
  • Doctrine and Covenants, 121:39 (twenty March 1839)

• A fanciful and flowery and heated imagination beware of; considering the things of God are of deep import; and fourth dimension, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts tin can but find them out. Thy mind, O human! if thou wilt lead a soul unto conservancy, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens, and search into and contemplate the darkest completeness, and the wide expanse of eternity—thou must commune with God.
  • Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 137 (25 March 1839)

• A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when yous experience pure intelligence flowing into you lot, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, and so that by noticing it, yous may find it fulfilled the aforementioned day or presently; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds past the Spirit of God, will come up to laissez passer; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and agreement it, you lot may grow into the principle of revelation, until yous become perfect in Christ Jesus.
  • History of the Church, 3:381 (27 June 1839)

• Salvation cannot come without revelation; information technology is in vain for anyone to government minister without information technology. No man is a minister of Jesus Christ without being a Prophet. No man can be a minister of Jesus Christ except he has the testimony of Jesus; and this is the spirit of prophecy.
  • Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 160 (2 July 1839)

1840s [edit]

• If you practise not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If yous have no accuser you lot volition enter heaven, and if you volition follow the revelations and instructions which God gives you through me, I volition take you into heaven every bit my back load. If you will not charge me, I will non accuse you. If you volition throw a cloak of charity over my sins, I volition over yours—for charity covereth a multitude of sins. What many people telephone call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I volition break it down.
  • History of the Church, 4:445 (7 November 1841)

• I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the nearly correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God past abiding past its precepts, than past whatsoever other book.
  • History of the Church building, 4:461 (28 November 1841)

• Our missionaries are going forth to dissimilar nations, and in Federal republic of germany, Palestine, New Holland, the E Indies, and other places, the standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can cease the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will become forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the swell Jehovah shall say the work is done.
  • History of the Church, 4:540 (1 March 1842)

• A human is saved no faster than he gets knowledge.
  • History of the Church building, 4:588 (x April 1842)

• That which is wrong under ane circumstance, may exist, and often is, right under another. God said, '1000 shalt not kill'; at some other time He said, 'One thousand shalt utterly destroy.' This is the principle on which the authorities of sky is conducted—by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed. Whatsoever God requires is right, no matter what information technology is, although nosotros may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire.'
  • Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 256 (11 Apr 1842)

• Our heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are gear up to believe or receive; and at the same time more terrible to the workers of iniquity, more than awful in the executions of His punishments, and more prepare to notice in every false way, than we are apt to suppose Him to be.
  • Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 257 (11 April 1842)

• Nothing is and so much calculated to lead people to abdicate sin equally to take them by the hand, and watch over them with tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power information technology has over my heed, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human being listen.
  • History of the Church, 5:23–24 (ix June 1842)

• Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.
  • Doctrine and Covenants, 127:ii (1 September 1842)

• I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should wait it from them; simply if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise conduct with their infirmities.
  • History of the Church, v:181 (29 October 1842)

• If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would dorsum out. Simply I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.
  • History of the Church, 5:336 (half dozen April 1843)

• It is my meditation all the day, and more than than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God cover the visions that roll similar an inundation surge before my mind.
  • History of the Church, v:362 (16 April 1843)

• More than painful to me are the thoughts of annihilation than death. If I have no expectation of seeing my father, mother, brothers, sisters and friends again, my heart would flare-up in a moment, and I should go down to my grave. The expectation of seeing my friends in the morning of the resurrection cheers my soul and makes me deport up against the evils of life. It is similar their taking a long journey, and on their render we meet them with increased joy.
  • History of the Church, 5:362 (16 Apr 1843)

• There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is affair, only is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned past purer eyes. We cannot run across it, but when our bodies are purified, nosotros shall run into that it is all affair.
  • Doctrine and Covenants, 131:7-8 (17 May 1843)

• I of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let information technology come from whence it may.
  • Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 199 (9 July 1843)

• I see no faults in the Church, and therefore permit me exist resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we become to hell, nosotros will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of information technology. Where this people are, there is good society. What practise we care where nosotros are, if the guild exist skillful? I don't care what a man's graphic symbol is; if he's my friend—a truthful friend, I will be a friend to him, and preach the Gospel of salvation to him, and give him good counsel, helping him out of his difficulties.
  • History of the Church, five:517 (23 July 1843)
• Friendship is one of the one thousand fundamental principles of "Mormonism"; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and crusade wars and contentions to cease and men to go friends and brothers.
  • History of the Church, v:517 (23 July 1843)

• Have the Presbyterians any truth? Yes. Have the Baptists, Methodists, &c., any truth? Yes. They all have a little truth mixed with error. Nosotros should gather all the adept and true principles in the earth and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true "Mormons."
  • History of the Church, 5:517 (23 July 1843)

• There has been a cracking difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. Information technology has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a protrude.
  • History of the Church, 6:184-85 (21 January 1844)

• I have more to avowal of than e'er any man had. I am the only human that has always been able to go on a whole church together since the days of Adam. A big bulk of the whole accept stood past me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus always did it. I avowal that no homo e'er did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran abroad from Him; but the Latter-mean solar day Saints never ran away from me still.
  • History of the Church building, six:408 (26 May 1844)

• If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
  • History of the Church, 6:549 (22 June 1844)
  • Smith's answer when friends defendant him of cowardice for intending to leave Illinois to avoid legal prosecution.

• I am going similar a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward all men. I SHALL DIE INNOCENT, AND Information technology SHALL Nonetheless Exist SAID OF ME — HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD Claret.
• Doctrine and Covenants, 135:4 (22 June 1844)
  • Smith'due south comments upon deciding to go to Carthage for incarceration and to face legal prosecution.

• [I]t is not always wise to chronicle all the truth. Even Jesus, the Son of God, had to refrain from doing so, and had to restrain His feelings many times for the safe of Himself and His followers, and had to conceal the righteous purposes of His heart in relation to many things pertaining to His Father'due south kingdom.
  • Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 392 (27 June 1844)

• O Lord my God!
  • Doctrine and Covenants, 135:one (27 June 1844)
  • Cried out by Smith as he fell to his death after being shot by a mob.

King Follett discourse (1844) [edit]

• You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake information technology. I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself. . . . When I am chosen by the trump of the archangel and weighed in the balance, yous volition all know me then.
  • History of the Church six:317 (7 Apr 1844)

• I want to ask this congregation, every man, adult female and child, to answer the question in their own center, what kind of a being God is? . . . Does any man or woman know? Have any of you lot seen him, heard him, or communed with him? . . . God himself was in one case as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by his ability, was to make Himself visible,—I say, if yous were to see Him today, y'all would come across Him similar a man in course—like yourselves in all the person, epitome, and very class as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked and conversed with Him, as one man talks and communes with another. . . . It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with him as one man converses with another, and that He was one time a man similar u.s.; yea, that God Himself, the Father of u.s. all, dwelt on an earth, the same every bit Jesus Christ himself did; and I will show it from the Bible.
  • History of the Church building, 6:303-04 (7 April 1844)

• [T]he doctrine of a plurality of Gods is as prominent in the Bible as any other doctrine. . . . The head God organized the heavens and the earth. I defy all the globe to abnegate me. In the beginning the heads of the Gods organized the heavens and the earth. Now the learned priests and the people rage, and the infidel imagine a vain matter. If nosotros pursue the Hebrew text further, information technology reads, 'The caput 1 of the Gods said, Let usa make a human in our own image.' I once asked a learned Jew, 'If the Hebrew language compels usa to render all words ending in heim in the plural, why not render the offset Eloheim plural?' He replied, 'That is the dominion with few exceptions; but in this case it would ruin the Bible.' He acknowledged I was right. . . . In the very beginning the Bible shows there is a plurality of Gods beyond the power of refutation. Information technology is a great subject I am abode on. The word Eloheim ought to be in the plural all the way through—'Gods'. The heads of the Gods appointed ane God for the states; and when you accept [that] view of the subject, its sets i free to see all the beauty, holiness and perfection of the Gods. All I want is to get the simple, naked truth, and the whole truth.
  • History of the Church, vi:474-76 (7 April 1844)

• Many men say there is ane God; the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are only i God. I say that is a strange God anyhow—three in ane, and 1 in three! Information technology is a curious organization. 'Father, I pray non for the world, but I pray for them which thou hast given me.' 'Holy Male parent, keep through Thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be ane every bit we are.' All are to exist crammed into one God, co-ordinate to sectarianism. It would make the biggest God in all the world. He would be a wonderfully big God—he would be a behemothic or a monster.
  • History of the Church, 6:476 (7 Apr 1844)

• Where was there always a son without a father? And where was there e'er a father without first being a son? Whenever did a tree or anything spring into existence without a progenitor? And everything comes in this way. Paul says that which is earthly is in the likeness of that which is heavenly, Hence if Jesus had a Begetter, can we non believe that He had a Begetter besides? I despise the thought of being scared to decease at such a doctrine, for the Bible is full of it.

• Element had an existence from the time he [God] had. The pure principles of element are principles which can never be destroyed; they may be organized and re-organized, but not destroyed. They had no commencement, and can have no end. . . . [T]he mind of man — the immortal spirit. Where did it come from? All learned men and doctors of divinity say that God created it in the offset; merely it is not then: the very idea lessens man in my estimation. I do non believe the doctrine; I know better. Hear it, all ye ends of the earth; for God has told me so . . . Nosotros say that God himself is a self-existent being. Who told y'all so? Information technology is correct plenty; but how did it get into your heads? Who told y'all that man did non exist in like manner upon the same principles? Man does be upon the aforementioned principles. God fabricated a tabernacle and put a spirit into it, and information technology became a living soul. . . . The mind or the intelligence which man possesses is [co-eternal] with God himself. I know that my testimony is truthful . . . Is information technology logical to say that the intelligence of spirits is immortal, and yet that information technology had a beginning? The intelligence of spirits had no beginning, neither volition information technology have an end. That is skilful logic. That which has a beginning may have an terminate. There never was a fourth dimension when there were non spirits; for they are [co-eternal] with our Father in heaven. . . . I take my ring from my finger and liken information technology unto the heed of man—the immortal function, because it has no first. Suppose you cut it in ii; then information technology has a kickoff and an terminate; but join it again, and it continues i eternal round. And so with the spirit of human being. As the Lord liveth, if information technology had a start, it will have an end. All the fools and learned and wise men from the beginning of creation, who say that the spirit of man had a beginning, prove that it must have an end; and if that doctrine is truthful, then the doctrine of anything would be true. But if I am right, I might with boldness proclaim from the house-tops that God never had the power to create the spirit of man at all. God himself could not create himself.
  • History of the Church, 6:308-309 (7 April 1844)

• You take to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and be kings and priests to God, the aforementioned every bit all Gods accept done earlier y'all, namely by going from one modest degree to another, and from a minor capacity to a not bad one: from grace to grace FROM EXALTATION TO EXALTATION until you Reach THE RESURRECTION OF THE Dead."
  • History of the Church, 6:306 (7 Apr 1844)

Attributed to Joseph Smith, Jr. [edit]

• I teach the people correct principles and they govern themselves.
  • Quoted by John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, x:57-58 (18 May 1862)
  • When asked how he governed his followers in Nauvoo, Illinois.

• Would to God, brethren, I could tell you who I am! Would to God I could tell you what I know! But y'all would telephone call information technology blasphemy, and there are men upon this stand who would want to have my life.
  • Quoted by Orson F. Whtiney, Life of Heber C. Kimball (Salt Lake Metropolis: Kimball Family, 1888), 322

Quotes virtually Joseph Smith, Jr. [edit]

• For someone who is not a Mormon, what matters nearly about Joseph Smith is how American both the man and his religion have proved to be. So self-created was he that he transcends Emerson and Whitman in my imaginative response, and takes his place with the great figures of our fiction, since at moments he appears far larger than life, in the style of a Shakespearean character. So rich and varied a personality, and then vital a spark of divinity, is almost beyond the limits of the man, as normally we construe those limits. To i who does non believe in him, only who has studied him intensely, Smith becomes almost a mythology in himself.
  • Harold Bloom, The American Organized religion (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 127

• Joseph was no pilus-shirt prophet. He believed in the adept life, with moderate self-indulgence in food and potable, occasional sport, and good entertainment. And that he succeeded in enjoying himself to the hilt detracted not at all from the semi-deification with which his own people enshrouded him. Whatever protests of impropriety dissolved before his personal charm. "Man is that he might accept joy" had been one of his beginning pregnant pronouncements in the Book of Mormon, and from that conventionalities he had never wavered. He was gregarious, expansive, and genuinely fond of people. And it is no accident that his theology in the finish discarded all traces of Calvinism and became an ingenuous blend of supernaturalism and materialism, which promised in sky a continuation of all earthly pleasures—piece of work, wealth, sex, and power.
  • Fawn M. Brodie, No Homo Knows My History; The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 294-95

• We do not worship the Prophet. Nosotros worship God our Eternal Begetter and the risen Lord Jesus Christ. Only we admit the Prophet; we proclaim him; nosotros respect him; we reverence him equally an instrument in the hands of the Omnipotent in restoring to the earth the ancient truths of the divine gospel, together with the priesthood through which the authority of God is exercised in the affairs of His Church building and for the blessing of His people.
  • Gordon B. Hinckley from Joseph Smith Jr.—Prophet of God, Mighty Servant

• Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more than, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other human that ever lived in information technology.
  • John Taylor, Doctrine and Covenants, 135:three

• Once in the world'south history nosotros were to have a Yankee prophet, and we have had him in Joe Smith. For good or for evil, he has left his track on the not bad pathway of life—or, to use the words of Horne, "knocked out for himself a window in the wall of the nineteenth century," whence his rude, bold, good-humored face up will peer out upon the generations to come up.
  • John Greenleaf Whittier, The Stranger in Lowell (Boston: Waite, Peirce and Company, 1845), 31
• I feel like shouting hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I always knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet whom the Lord raised upward and ordained, and to whom He gave keys and ability to build upwardly the kingdom of God on earth and sustain it.
  • Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 3:51

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