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.

“Being born again, comes by the Spirit of God through ordinances.”

Joseph Smith | Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith

Topics: Baptism, Ordinances

“You don’t know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don’t blame anyone for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I would not have believed it myself. I never did harm any man since I was born in the world. My voice is always for peace.”

Joseph Smith | History of the Church, 6:317

Topics: Joseph Smith, Peace, Restoration

“There is a difference between the Holy Ghost and the gift of the Holy Ghost. Cornelius received the Holy Ghost before he was baptized, which was the convincing power of God unto him of the truth of the Gospel, but he could not receive the gift of the Holy Ghost until after he was baptized. Had he not [been baptized], the Holy Ghost which convinced him of the truth of God, would have left him.”

Joseph Smith | History of the Church, 4:555

Topics: Gifts of the Spirit, Holy Ghost

“The whole visible creation, as it now exists, is the effect of faith. It was faith by which it was framed, and it is by the power of faith that it continues in its organized form, and by which the planets move round their orbits and sparkle forth their glory.”

Joseph Smith | Lectures on Faith, 72-73

Topics: Creation, Faith, Priesthood

“Faith is the assurance which men have of the existence of things which they have not seen and…the principle of action in all intelligent beings.”

Joseph Smith | “Lectures on Faith”

Topics: Faith, Intelligence

“We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity. God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.”

Joseph Smith | Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 356.

Topics: Eternal Life, Faith

“At the first organization in heaven we were all present and saw the Savior chosen and appointed, and the plan of salvation made and we sanctioned it.”

Joseph Smith | The Words of Joseph Smith

Topics: Plan of Salvation, War in Heaven

In pitching my tent we found three prairie rattlesnakes, which the brethren were about to kill, but I said, ‘Let them alone—don’t hurt them! How will the serpent ever lose its venom, while the servants of God possess the same disposition, and continue to make war upon it? Men must become harmless before the brute creation, and when men lose their vicious dispositions and cease to destroy the animal race, the lion and the lamb can dwell together, and the sucking child can play with the serpent in safety.’”

Joseph Smith | Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 71

Topics: Animals

“God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, . . . saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself.”

Joseph Smith | Teachings, 354.

Topics: Plan of Salvation, War in Heaven

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

Joseph Smith | Joseph Smith, Teachings, 349

Topics: Plan of Salvation, War in Heaven