Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.

To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly. For God, whosoever he be (if haply there be any other but the world itself), and in what part soever resident, all sense He is, all sight, all hearing: He is the whole of the life and of the soul, all of Himself.

Maybe being Jesus is simply seeing people as they truly are.

A God alone can comprehend a God.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.