Occupation: Translator Birth: December 23, 1805 Death: June 27, 1844
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..
We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel….
Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins..
Kindness is our religion..
I don't blame anyone for not believing me, if I had not experienced it myself, I would not have believed it myself..
Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous..
If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates..
Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men..
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 ke….
Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power..
The Book of Mormon is true, just what it purports to be, and for this testimony I expect to give an account in the day of judgment..
Surely I have contemplated the things of God..
Salvation could not come to the world without the mediation of Jesus Christ..
The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead..
Wherefore a good name is better than riches..
That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at another time He said, 'Tho….
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..
Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive..
This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow..
Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and pray over, and for your families, you….
The secret of masonry is to keep a secret..