“It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.” WayGivingHeartMayChildrenIdeasLightFatherBeliefTeachingExampleConcernOur ChildrenIllOur FamilyYour Children Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.” MayIndependentGods WillMissionaryCalumnyMissionary Work Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what he will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them.” KnowsMayAbleKnownBearsAll ThingsSaintTwelve Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children.” MayChildrenMotherEternityOur ChildrenYour ChildrenMotheringMother Child Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“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.” IfsKnowsMayChildrenLittlesAsksJesusLanguageCapacityResurrection Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.” MayMatterReasonEventsNo Matter What Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation to advance in knowledge. He has power to institute laws to instruct the weaker intelligences, that they may be exalted with Himself, so that they might have one glory upon another, and all that knowledge, power, glory, and intelligence, which is requisite in order to save them in the world of spirits. (King Follett Discourse)” WorldMayMightLawSpiritOrderSituationSawsKingsFindingsGloryIntelligentPrivilegeMidstDiscourseInstituteExaltedPower Of Knowledge Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.” MayStillsLyingArmsAll ThingsSalvationBelovedAssuranceBrethren Book:The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Containing the Revelations Source: The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Containing the Revelations
“Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults.” GivingMayFoolGiving UpFaultsSakeToilNever Giving Up Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“The standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go 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 great Jehovah shall say the work is done.” MayHas BeensCountryDoneHandsPurposeProgressStandardsEarsArmyIndependentRageGods WillAccomplishedMissionaryContinentsPersecutionJehovahCalumnyMissionary WorkTruth Of GodPurpose Of GodCalumny Is Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul - We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.” IfsMenBelieveMayAbleHonestAll ThingsEndureLovelyBeing HonestReportsVirtuousDoing GoodBenevolentChastePraiseworthyAdmonition Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“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, 'Thou shalt utterly destroy.' This is the principle on which the government of heaven is conducted—by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed. Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire.” MayChildrenLongSaidMatterReasonGovernmentHeavenPrinciplesEventsCircumstancesNo Matter WhatKingdomsRevelationsAdaptedOften IsAnother Time Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of my hold priesthood, but ye shall know when ye receive a fullness by reason of the anointing: For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and just, for even now their females are more virtuous then the gentiles.” KnowsMenShouldMayStatesReasonPurposeWhiteWifeFemalePrivilegeFallenNativeVirtuousNative AmericanFullnessPosterityPriesthoodPolygamyGentilesAnointing Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.” GivingFeelsMindMayIdeasSpiritJesusGrowsUnderstandingChristPerfectPrinciplesPureGods WillRevelationsFulfilledStrokesNoticingSpirit Of GodPersonal Revelation Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.” MayPrinciplesFundamentalsFundamental PrinciplesMormonism Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“It is said that brother Joseph in his lifetime declared that the Elders of this Church should step forth at a particular time when the Constitution should be in danger, and rescue it, and save it. This may be so; but I do not recollect that he said exactly so. I believe he [Joseph] said something like this - that the time would come when the Constitution and the country would be in danger of an overthrow; and said he, If the Constitution be saved at all, it will be by the Elders of this Church. I believe this is about the language, as nearly as I can recollect it.” IfsShouldBelieveMaySaidI CanCountryWould BeAmericaLanguageI BelieveChurchFreedomLibertyStepsDangerParticularBrotherConstitutionLifetimeSavedRescueElders Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“We may continue to expect the enjoyment of all the blessings of civil and religious liberty, guaranteed by the Constitution. The citizens of Illinois have done themselves honor, in throwing the mantle of the Constitution over a persecuted and afflicted people.” PeopleMayDoneAmericaReligiousFreedomLibertyCitizensHonorBlessingConstitutionEnjoymentThrowingPersecutedReligious LibertyIllinois Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows, orphans, and patriots to be broken, and their wrongs left without redress? No! I invoke the genius of our Constitution. I appeal to the patriotism of Americans to stop this unlawful and unholy procedure; and pray that God may defend this nation from the dreadful effects of such outrages.” HeartMayStatesAmericaAsksLeftNationsFreedomLibertyEffectsBrokenPrayingGeniusCitizensConstitutionAppealsRepublicPatriotProceduresOutrageWidowsOrphanUnnoticedInvokeUnlawfulRedress Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft, and let all the people say Amen! that the blood of our fathers may not cry from the ground against us. Sacred is the memory of that blood which bought for us our liberty.” PeopleMayCountryAmericaFatherMemoriesFreedomLibertyDemocracyBloodCryStandardsConstitutionSacredOur CountryOur FatherAmen Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.” MayAmericaFatherPrinciplesForeverLandConstitutionOur Father Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“I will prove that the world is wrong, by showing what God is...God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret...I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see” MenWorldMayIdeasHeavenSecretProveEternityVeilsExalted Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
