Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.

So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

God will use us for his purposes, but it takes a certain kind of listening.

It's funny how God will just keep using you, and our motto around our family forever has been, 'Just let Him use you.'

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.