Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be unfolded in one age, and something in another, yet eternity itself cannot full unfold him.

As a Christian, I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times.

The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.

I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.

Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

With God, all things are possible.

...I came to realize that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and then when we're ready. He will plant our feet on the path that's best for us. . . but it's up to us to do the walking.

If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you!

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every man and woman will be put in possession of the Holy Ghost. . . . They will know things that are, that will be, and that have been. They will understand things in heaven, things on the earth, and things under the earth, things of time, and things of eternity, according to their several callings and capacities.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'