Joseph Smith

Quotes By LDS Prophet Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith was the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, he is considered by members of the Church as a prophet, seer, and revelator. Joseph translated the Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ and a record of ancient American peoples as was revealed to him by God.

“The baptism of water, without the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost attending it, is of no use. They are necessarily and inseparably connected.”

Joseph Smith | Teachings: Joseph Smith, 90

Topics: Baptism, Holy Ghost

“Baptism is a holy ordinance preparatory to the reception of the Holy Ghost; it is the channel and key by which the Holy Ghost will be administered.”

Joseph Smith | Teachings: Joseph Smith, 95–96

Topics: Baptism, Holy Ghost

“There should be no license for sin, but mercy should go hand in hand with reproof.”

Joseph Smith | Documentary History of the Church, vol. 5, p. 24.

Topics: Mercy, Repentance, Sin

If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a ‘Mormon, I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination; for the same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day Saints would trample upon the rights of the Roman Catholics, or of any other denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves.”

Joseph Smith | Joseph Smith - History of the Church, 5:498.

Topics: Integrity, Religious Freedom

“[Lucifer] sought for things which were unlawful. Hence he was sent down, and it is said he drew many away with him; and the greatness of his punishment is that he shall not have a tabernacle.”

Joseph Smith | Teachings, 297.

Topics: Satan

“Be merciful and you shall find mercy. Seek to help save souls, not to destroy them: for verily you know, that ‘there is more joy in heaven, over one sinner that repents, than there is over ninety and nine just persons [who] need no repentance.’”

Joseph Smith | Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 77.

Topics: Mercy, Repentance

“The nearer we get to our Heavenly Father, the more we are disposed to look with compassion on perishing souls.”

Joseph Smith

Topics: Charity, Forgiveness, Nature of God, Service

“When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.”

Joseph Smith

Topics: Intelligence, Jesus Christ, Personal Revelation

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.

Joseph Smith | History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843]

Topics: Faith, Heavenly Father

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and watch over them with tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow’r it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

Joseph Smith | Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, Page 62

Topics: Depression, Kindness, Love, Sin