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

"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 you, namely, by going from a small degree to another, from grace to grace, fr…"

"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…"

"I have the Priesthood, and can administer in the ordinances of the Gospel."

"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."