Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.

To lay down one's life for the truth.

I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

It is love that believes the resurrection.

Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

Let us think less of men and more of God.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.