Excerpts of Citations

It was not a bow-wow language as some will tell you.

~Joseph Fielding Smith

It will not be a literal fire any more than it was a literal water that covered the earth in the flood.

~Joseph Fielding Smith

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

~Thomas Edison

I am a deeply superficial person.

~Andy Warhol

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

~G. K. Chesterton

Here, then, is eternal life—to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have done before ...

~Joseph Smith

When you climb up a ladder, you must begin at the bottom, and ascend step by step, until you arrive at the top; and so it is with the principles of the gospel—you must begin with the first, a...

~Joseph Smith

Forty sparrows do not make an eagle, forty house cats do not make a lion, and forty survey courses do not make a scholar. Moreover, if you bring together forty men, each of whom knows a little Lati...

~Hugh Nibley

The first and fundamental principle of our holy religion is, that we believe that we have a right to embrace all, and every item of truth, without limitation or without being circumscribed or prohi...

~Joseph Smith

When he again visits this earth, he will come to thoroughly purge his kingdom from wickedness, and, as ruler of the nations, to dictate and administer to them as the heir to the kingdom; and the Ge...

~Brigham Young

Submissiveness involves an invitation to come to grips with reality—to come into harmony with "things as they really are." Only then, proceeding from where one now is, can genuine s...

~Neal A. Maxwell

The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, th...

~Hugh Nibley

Trust, like Christ-like love, is to be extended not because others deserve it but because they need it, because they can become trustworthy (or loving) by being nurtured in a community of trust and...

~Eugene England

Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God. A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family a...

~Joseph Smith

But there has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge, and a pumpkin for a beetle. Eve...

~Joseph Smith

Reading the experience of others, or the revelation given to them, can never give us a comprehensive view of our condition and true relation to God. Knowledge of these things can only be obtained b...

~Joseph Smith