Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.

I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

There is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah...

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

Christian life means sacrifice.

There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it involves being present and making a sacrifice.

When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.