Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes
If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.
Nelson, William G. "Joseph Smith, the Prophet." The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 17, no. 12, General Board of Y.L.M.I.A., Dec. 1906, p. 543.
This was a momentous change of doctrine for the Mormon Church. Prior to this revelation, Mormons would very actively convert and accept Blacks as members but would not ordain a Black, This doctrine had made Mormons, who were themselves persecuted in America, more acceptable—especially in the Southern States. However, it had been a source of great political and intellectual embarrassment to the Church until Kimball resolved the problem with this declaration.
Note that this point of view is somewhat anti-scientific. However, Mormonism is not monolithic. See {625544} .
Einstein and his wife gave this bible to an American friend, Harriett Hamilton. In 2013, the Bible sold at auction for $68,500.
This quotation is often used to illustrate the complete intellectual conformity that was (and for some still is) required of the Roman Catholic Church. Although this was a theological statement, it is sometimes functionally used as a definition of loyalty to a President or other political figure with respect to staff.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Much of the then prevailing opinion was the opposite—that men and women should be taught these things from birth and education. Right and God’s plan, they argue, need not be contested for with temptation and wrong or worse, the word of Satan.
Joseph Smith, Jr. was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon. By the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religious culture that continues to the present.
