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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.


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


If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.


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


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.


Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.


I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.


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


An angel of God never has wings.


Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.


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.


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


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.


The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.


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


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


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!


If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.


There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.


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.