Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

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.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

I submit that in the few minutes that Joseph Smith was with the Father and the Son, he learned more of the nature of God the Eternal Father and the risen Lord than all the learned minds in all their discussions through all centuries of time.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

never had interviews with the gods or were in any degree under the inspiration of Heaven.

I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.