“I want to say to every man, the Constitution of the United States, as formed by our fathers, was dictated, was revealed, was put into their hearts by the Almighty, who sits enthroned in the midst of the heavens; although unknown to them, it was dictated by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and I tell you in the name of Jesus Christ, it is as good as I could ask for.” MenWantHeartStatesAsksFatherJesusNamesHeavenChristUnitedUnited StatesJesus ChristConstitutionEvery ManRevelationsMidstAlmightyOur FatherConstitution Of The United States Author:Brigham Young
“You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home to our spiritual roots before the state religions, the agrarian centralized religions rose up with autocratic government and said, 'This is what you're going to believe, these are the official revelations, take it from us, you can trust us, we got it.'” BelieveHumansSaidStatesHomeGovernmentSpiritualEuropeRootsRoseOfficialsRevelationsAncestorAsiaAttemptingShamanism Author:Michael Harner
“Why was Joseph Smith persecuted? Why was he hunted from neighborhood to neighborhood, from city to city, and from State to State, and at last suffered death? Because he received revelations from the Father, from the Son, and was ministered to by holy angels, and published to the world the direct will of the Lord concerning his children on the earth.” WorldChildrenStatesEarthLastsFatherCitiesLordSonHolyAngelDirectRevelationsNeighborhoodPersecutedHuntedJoseph Smith Author:Brigham Young
“To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.” MindStatesFeelingsBodySpiritualValuesBeliefReligiousTheoryFlowClaimsDoctrineSuperiorsRevelationsExceptionState Of MindOur ThoughtsConnectingArbitraryPsychoThoughts And FeelingsIllogicalPhysiologicalCausationSpiritual ValuesRefutation Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.” LittlesStillsStatesReasonSpiritualOrderInterestBalanceHigherImportancePreparationRevelations Author:James F. Cooper