Top 140 Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Wherefore a good name is better than riches.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

52. “The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

53. “Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

54. “The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

55. “The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

56. “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

57. “Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

58. “The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

59. “No man knows my history.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

60. “I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

61. “Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent...”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

62. “It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

63. “If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

64. “No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

65. “No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

66. “The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

67. “Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

68. “That which has a beginning will surely have an end.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

69. “God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what he will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them...”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

70. “Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

71. “What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

72. “We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

73. “I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

74. “Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God...”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

75. “There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

76. “It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

77. “There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

78. “If I lose my life in a good cause I am willing to be sacrificed on the altar of virtue, righteousness and truth, in maintaining the laws and Constitution of the United States, if need be, for the general good of mankind.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

79. “God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

80. “If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

81. “The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

82. “How I do love to hear the wolves howl!”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

83. “I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

84. “Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

85. “Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

86. “When God commands, do it!”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

87. “Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

88. “Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country; observe its principles; and above all, show yourselves men of God, worthy citizens.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

89. “I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

90. “If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

91. “I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all men by the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Illinois.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

92. “We say that God is true; that the Constitution of the United States is true; that the Bible is true; and that the Book of Mormon is true, and that Christ is true.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

93. “One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

94. “We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

95. “When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

96. “Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

97. “In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

98. “How precious are the souls of men!”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

99. “My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.

100. “In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it.”

— Joseph Smith Jr.