"God did not make the earth out of nothing—for it is contrary to a rational mind and reason that a something could be brought from a nothing."

"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret.... It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Charac…"

"I am a man of faith, and I will live by faith to the end."

"I am a man of God, and I desire to do the will of God."

"When all the rest of the children have received their blessings in the Holy Priesthood, then that curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and they will then come up and possess the Priesthood, an…"