Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when it was, it is written in the rocks that, like the animals and plants upon its surface, the earth itself grew.

All creation begins with thought ("Proceeds from the Father"). All creation then moves to word ("Ask and you shall receive, speak and it shall be done unto you"). All creation is fulfilled in deed ("And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us").

God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.

Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word fiat, "let it be." It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe.

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.

The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.

God has created the world in play, as it were.

Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.

They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn’t see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.

I told Sarah Palin it would be absolutely fine. I thought it would be appropriate. There was tremendous press, and I think it's something that's very important to discuss.Not even for her son, but for so many other sons and daughters that are coming back from the Middle East, where they have traumatic problems. They have tremendous problems.

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful.

Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.