None of them was right, just as it was when the prophet Joseph asked the angel which of the sects was right that he might join it. The answer was that none of them are right. What, none of them? No. we will not stop to argue that question; the angel merely told him to join none of them that none of them were right.

Journal of Discourses 20:167 | This quote is discussed by Mormon critics Jerald and Sandra Tanner as an illustration that John Taylor believed it was an angel rather than God the Father and/or Jesus Christ that had visited Joseph Smith, Jr. (Jerald and Sandra Tanner, The Changing World of Mormonism (1979; ISBN 0-8024-1234-3, page 164. The Changing World of Mormonism is a revision of the Tanners' 1963 book Mormonism: Shadow or Reality?). | Other quotes