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Joseph Smith, Jr.
Age: 38 †
Born: 1805
Born: December 23
Died: 1844
Died: June 27
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Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.
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It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.
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This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.
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Surely I have contemplated the things of God.
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I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it.
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When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.
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Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.
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My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.
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We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.
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The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
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The Mayor, Aldermen and Councilors of the City of Nauvoo, IL, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that they will support the Constitution of the United States, and of this State and that they will well and truly perform the duties of their offices to the best of their skill and abilities.
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By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution of our country and that human nature can be driven to a certain extent when it will yield no further.
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Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
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The constitution expects every man to do his duty and when he fails the law urges him or should he do too much the same master rebukes him.
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I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.
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The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.
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Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.
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The things of God are of deep import and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.
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Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.
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