Joseph Smith

I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.

Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam.

God made Aaron to be the mouth piece for the children of Israel, and He will make me be god to you in His stead, and the Elders to be mouth for me; and if you don't like it, you must lump it.

I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the Gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth—diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man.'

Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last.

I have a testimony to lay before you, my testimony is that I am a prophet of God; and I know it; and I tell you in the name of Jesus Christ that I am a prophet.

If I were to be saved and go to heaven, and see any man there that I had not endeavored to save, I would feel worse there than I would in hell.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

I have the oldest Bible in the world; I have examined it, and there is nothing in it that conflicts with the revelations of God.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

I calculated to be one of the instruments of setting up the kingdom of Daniel by the word of the Lord, and I intended to lay a foundation that would revolutionize the whole world.

I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam.

I told them I was a good boy, and if I had done anything wrong, I was willing to be corrected.

I will preach on the one grand key-note of the whole volume of scripture, which is the resurrection of the dead.

It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty that we have a right to expect to see God, and that he will converse with us as one man converses with another.

I defy all the world to show a more perfect law than the one that is given to us.

If I am to be a martyr, I am willing to be one.

I am a rough stone. The sound of the hammer and chisel is continually upon me. I desire the voice of the Lord to ring in my ears, and I am willing to bear the consequence.

God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!

I have learned for myself that God is a being of great condescension, and that he will reveal himself to man.