Skip to content

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.

Another quote →

Topics

Religion

More quotes by Joseph Smith Jr.

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

Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge.

Truth is "Mormonism." God is the author of it.

That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another.

All Joseph Smith Jr. quotes →

You may also like

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Smith Jr. (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.