Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

Spirit is never without matter, matter is never without spirit.

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.

How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

"God is a spirit." But that does not make him an immaterial being —a being that has no properties in common with matter. The expression "an immaterial being," is a contradiction in terms. Immateriality is only another name for nothing. It is the negative of all existence. A "spirit" is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

Have you watched it? A man who is too greedy about money, by and by starts having the qualities of money. He becomes just money. He loses spirituality, he is no more a spirit. He is reduced to a thing. If you love money, you will become like money. If you love your house, by and by you will become material. Whatsoever you love, you become. Love is alchemical. Never love the wrong thing, because it will transform you. Nothing is so transforming as love. Love something which can raise you higher, to higher altitudes. Love something beyond you.

We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.

We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light, Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.

My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error