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

— Joseph Smith Jr.

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

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.

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.

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