Joseph Smith quote: "That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover• our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion• or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw• themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved"

Man is that he might have joy.
JOSEPH SMITH

That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cove...
JOSEPH SMITH

When I have proved that I am right, and get all the world subdued under me, I think I shall deserve ...
JOSEPH SMITH

[W]e are bound together in chains as well as the cords of everlasting love, we are in good spirits a...
JOSEPH SMITH

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.
JOSEPH SMITH

“This morning I read German and visited with a brother and sister from Michigan, who thought that ...
JOSEPH SMITH

The Standard of Truth has been erected. No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing. Perse...
JOSEPH SMITH

The study demonstrates that low-income workers overwhelmingly desire to save, and many do, despite f...
JOSEPH SMITH

I am like a sheep going to the slaughter; but I am as calm as a summer's day.
JOSEPH SMITH

If thou art called to pass through tribulations; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou...
JOSEPH SMITH

Access to the banking system is a critical piece of their ability to save. Giving them that access i...
JOSEPH SMITH

The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tal...
JOSEPH SMITH

Go forth and multiply
JOSEPH SMITH

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and ...
JOSEPH SMITH

If my life is of no value to my friends, then it is of no value to me.
JOSEPH SMITH

I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradu...
JOSEPH SMITH

They bring what's in the neighborhood to hip-hop.
JOSEPH SMITH

We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not...
JOSEPH SMITH

How I do love to hear the wolves howl!
JOSEPH SMITH

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.&#...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keyst...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constit...
JOSEPH F. SMITH

The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the p...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heav...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is throug...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the v...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

If I were in the deepest coalpit of Nova Scotia, and had the Rocky Mountains piled on top of me, I w...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will n...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through ...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

An angel of God never has wings.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains pil...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

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

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very pu...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will ...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of un...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guidi...
JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH

As might be expected by its tremendous diversity and dramatic growth, China presents a remarkable mi...
DR. JOSEPH SMITH

This is more alive in some ways because we're not talking hypothetical events.
DR. JOSEPH SMITH

The cancer was contained within the prostate and has been completely removed. We expect that his can...
DR. JOSEPH SMITH

I feel everyone on the team brings positive elements. Everyone is supportive. If they're given an op...
JOSEPH SMITH (COACH)

The positive sign is there's more of a concern for others, as well as self, than people think.
DR. JOSEPH SMITH

Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set ...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

Diversity is the ultimate form of freedom!
JOSEPH D. SMITH

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and ob...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

To defend your own freedom, you must defend the freedom of everyone else.
JOSEPH D. SMITH

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and ha...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saint...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR.

And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

Shout, even when nobody will listen!
JOSEPH D. SMITH

For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by ...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the groun...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

If thou art called to pass through tribulation; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou ...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then ...
JOSEPH SMITH JR.

I do not ask for mercy for myself. As you have heard, there were many times when I didn't care wheth...
JOSEPH P. SMITH

I do not ask for mercy for myself. The only reason I ask for you to give me a life sentence is for t...
JOSEPH P. SMITH

I just wanted to die that day.
JOSEPH P. SMITH

I truly hope that all the families involved can get their lives back on track.
JOSEPH P. SMITH

I take full responsibility for the crimes. . . . I knew I was wrong, but I couldn't stop.
JOSEPH P. SMITH

I do not ask for mercy for myself. The only thing I can see to give me a life sentence is for my fam...
JOSEPH P. SMITH

I'm truly sorry for my actions.
JOSEPH P. SMITH

I never expected or believed I could commit this horrible crime. I can only hope that I can be an ex...
JOSEPH P. SMITH

You don't think I would do that on purpose, Ma? It was an accident. I didn't mean to do it, Ma. She ...
JOSEPH P. SMITH

I confessed to everything, murder, all types of stuff.
JOSEPH P. SMITH

We gave it our best. Both teams were evenly matched. They made a couple shots down the stretch and w...
JOSEPH SMITH (COACH)

Everybody contributed, everybody stepped up. We knew SLV would give us all they've got. We did a goo...
JOSEPH SMITH (COACH)

We finished up as good as you could ask for. I'm really proud of our guys for coming together. We're...
JOSEPH SMITH (COACH)

It was an awesome environment. Both teams played extremely hard. We knew if we wanted to win, we'd h...
JOSEPH SMITH (COACH)

It definitely helps if you can hit a few shots early. You can get your confidence going. Our guys hu...
JOSEPH SMITH (COACH)

We're struggling a little with that right now. We just need to keep working hard.
JOSEPH SMITH (COACH)

I think we're in good shape. Harbor's always a formidable opponent. We'll have to be ready to play.
JOSEPH SMITH (COACH)

If he keeps working hard, he's got a bright future. He's a good kid. We like him a lot. He works har...
JOSEPH SMITH (COACH)

The people on both sides of this issue fundamentally care most about people having the opportunity t...
JOSEPH SMITH (SOCIAL ACTIVIST)

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turn...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
JOSEPH ROUX

Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Innocence is always unsuspicious.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
JOSEPH ROTBLAT

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely th...
JOSEPH CONRAD

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. N...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
NAFISA JOSEPH

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it ...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my g...
NAFISA JOSEPH

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
NAFISA JOSEPH

I have always loved animals since I was very young.
NAFISA JOSEPH

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eye...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
NAFISA JOSEPH

Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and y...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mis...
NAFISA JOSEPH

I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
NAFISA JOSEPH

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
NAFISA JOSEPH

I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
NAFISA JOSEPH

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t...
JOSEPH ADDISON

There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.&#...
TYLER JOSEPH

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed...
JOSEPH LANCASTER

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo...
JOSEPH CONRAD

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i...
JOSEPH HELLER

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned him...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can ch...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique pote...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Love is a friendship set to music.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the e...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dyin...
JOSEPH ADDISON

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But th...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
JOSEPH ROUX

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least...
JOSEPH LANCASTER

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL

I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
TYLER JOSEPH

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls i...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON

'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Way...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON

If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he ...
JOSEPH ADDISON

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
JOSEPH ROUX

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...
JOSEPH CONRAD

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.
JOSEPH PARKINSON

A lot of people have mentioned that I'm the X-factor on the team. I'll try and do what I've been try...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

The ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH

ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I stepped up with confidence to take the shot, and it went in. After the shot went through the net, ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

We're going to come out like we do every game playing defense and playing with a lot of confidence. ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I've been given more opportunities, and I'm just trying to step up and do big things along with Sean...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

When Sean came back in the game, he kept on scoring so all their focus was on Sean. That made me wid...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I try to learn from my mistakes. When I didn't take that 3-pointer against Florida State, I didn't h...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I didn't think about the Florida State game anymore because I had a bad game. I don't try to dwell o...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, wi...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for t...
JOSEPH LANCASTER

Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beauti...
JOSEPH WAPNER

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. ...
JOSEPH SUGARMAN

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon ...
JOSEPH HELLER

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above anothe...
JOSEPH ADDISON

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumph...
JOSEPH STOWELL

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their succe...
JOSEPH JACOBS

I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imag...
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of vi...
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM

There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
JOSEPH ADDISON

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somethi...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somet...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to produc...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the w...
JOSEPH JOUBERT

The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has s...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered ...
JOSEPH HALL

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRAD

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.
JOSEPH CONRAD

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man app...
JOSEPH CONRAD

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.
JOSEPH FARRELL

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