Quotes from Joseph Smith, Jr.

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.

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.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

No man knows my history.

A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.

The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.

Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

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.

Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.

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

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.

The heads (Plural) of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take that view of the subject, it sets one free to see all the beauty, holiness and perfection of the Gods.

When God commands, do it!

God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.