JOSEPH SMITH QUOTES

Folks, it was stuff like this that magnetically attracted me to Joseph as a young man:

Joseph Smith

1. Doctrine of translation
2. If a man were to gaze
3. God was a Christ on another world
4. The Holy Ghost
5. No man knows my history
6. You have to learn how to be Gods yourselves
7. As much as the twelve
8. A man is saved no faster
9. Whatever principle
10. If I were to tell you all I know
11. Fly to pieces like glass
12. To Prepare the way for the Lost 10

Other Quotes

1. Royal lineage - Lorenzo Snow
2. 3 Nephites
3. Lost 10 tribes
4. City of Enoch - will return

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Joseph Smith -The Doctrine of Translation (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith)

Now the doctrine of translation is a power which belongs to this Priesthood. There are many things which belong to the powers of the Priesthood and the keys thereof, that have been kept hid froma before the foundation of the world; they are hid from the wise and prudent to be revealed in the last times.
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Teaching of the Prophet Smith

Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.

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Quote: Joseph Smith - from the Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith

I wish I was in a suitable place to tell it, and that I had the trump of an archangel, so that I could tell the story in such a manner that persecution would cease for ever. What did Jesus say? (Mark it, Elder Rigdon!) The Scriptures inform us that Jesus said, As the Father hath power in Himself, even so hath the Son power—to do what? Why, what the Father did. The answer is obvious—in a manner to lay down His body and take it up again. Jesus, what are you going to do? To lay down my life as my Father did, and take it up again. Do we believe it? If you do not believe it, you do not believe the Bible. The Scriptures say it, and I defy all the learning and wisdom and all the combined powers of earth and hell together to refute it.

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Here is Joseph Smiths quote:

On the doctrine that the Holy Ghost will one day receive a body, Franklin D. Richards records in his writings the following: "Joseph also said that the Holy Ghost is now in a state of probation which if he should perform in righteousness he may pass through the same as a similar course of things that the Son has" (in Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook, Words of Joseph Smith [Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1980], 245).
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Joseph Smith:

No man knows my history,” he said once. “I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don’t blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I would not have believed it myself” (History of the Church,6:317).
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Quote from Joseph Smith:

"You have got to learn how to be gods yourselves"

The King Follett Sermon, one of the classics of Church literature, was given by the Prophet Joseph Smith at the April 7, 1844, conference of the Church in Nauvoo, Illinois. Some twenty thousand Saints were assembled.

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Teaching of the Prophet Joseph Smith
(Page 149)

The scriptural knowledge that the Prophet possessed was not restricted to himself, “for 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”.
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Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power than many men who are on the earth. Hence it needs revelation to assist us, and give us knowledge of the things of God.”15.

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Joseph Smith taught the following in April 1843, later recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 130:18–19: “Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. And if a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come.”

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"Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me." Brigham arose and said, "Don't tell me anything that I can't bear, for I don't want to apostatize." (As recalled by Parley P. Pratt in MS 55 (September 4, 1893): 585.)

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11.

I have tried for a number of years to get the minds of the Saints prepared to receive the things of God; but we frequently see some of them, after suffering all they have for the work of God, will fly to pieces like glass as soon as anything comes that is contrary to their traditions: they cannot stand the fire at all. How many will be able to abide a celestial law, and go through and receive their exaltation, I am unable to say, as many are called, but few are chosen [see D&C 121:40]

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Joseph Smith:

And now I am prepared to say by the authority of Jesus Christ, that not many years shall pass away before the United States shall present such a scene of bloodshed as has not a parallel in the history of our nation; pestilence, hail, famine, and earthquake will sweep the wicked of this generation from off the face of the land, to open and prepare the way for the return of the lost tribes of Israel from the north country.

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Other Quotes

Lorenzo Snow:

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Joseph Smith and His Royal Lineage : A Blood Descendant of Jesus Christ

President Lorenzo Snow said, while speaking to a group of General Authorities: There are those in this audience who are decendants of the old Twelve Apostles and shall I say it, yes, descendants of the Savior Himself. His seed is represented in this body of men "The early church leaders believed that the Savior of mankind had seed. Starting from the ancient prophets through the Old and New Testament apostasies, this study follows the thread of evidence from the Dark Ages into the history of the Desposyni. Volume I and II trace the secular past as well as the scriptural evidence which suggests that Joseph Smith was, indeed, a blood descendant of Jesus Christ.

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2. Oliver Huntington - 3 Nephites

Oliver Huntington, an early LDS pioneer, wrote or dictated a shelf full of reminiscences, including those concerning his youthful association with Joseph Smith.

Historians find that some of what he put down does not square with most other reports. The discrepancy may have to do with inaccuracies in recall because of age, still perhaps Huntington did remember facts that others forgot.

Under the date of 16 February 1895 he writes without further elaboration:

 “I am willing to state that the names of the 3 Nephites who do not sleep in the earth are:

Jeremiah
Zedekiah
Kumenonhi

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3. On Lost 10 tribes

I can now see, as President George A. Smith afterwards said, that I was then really "the bosom friend and companion of the Prophet Joseph." I was as welcome at the Mansion as at my own house, and on one occasion when at a full table of his family and chosen friends, he placed me at his right hand and introduced me as his "friend, Brother B. F. Johnson, at whose house he sat at a better table than his own." Sometimes when at my house I asked him questions relating to past, present and future; some of his answers were taken by Brother William Clayton, who was then present with him, and are now recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants; the one as to what the Lord told him in relation to seeing his face at 85 years of age; also the one as to the earth becoming as a sea of glass, molten with fire. [D&C 130: 9, 14-17]

Other questions were asked when Brother Clayton was not present, one of which I will relate: I asked where the nine and a half tribes of Israel were. "Well," said he, "you remember the old caldron or potash kettle you used to boil maple sap in for sugar, don't you?" I said yes. "Well," said he, "they are in the north pole in a concave just the shape of that kettle. And John the Revelator is with them, preparing them for their return."

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4. The City of Enoch and where it will return:

Joseph Young, Organization of the Seventies, p.12

Joseph Smith said, on another occasion, in the hearing of some of the saints still surviving, that the City of Enoch would again take its place in the identical spot from which it had been detached, now forming that chasm of the earth, filled with water, called the Gulf of Mexico.