The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Джозеф Смит знаменитые цитаты
„Уберите «Книгу Мормона» и откровения, где будет наша религия? У нас её не будет.“
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
Джозеф Смит: Цитаты на английском языке
Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 199 (9 July 1843)
1840s
History of the Church, 4:461 (28 November 1841)
1840s
Контексте: 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.
Quoted by Orson F. Whtiney, Life of Heber C. Kimball (Salt Lake City: Kimball Family, 1888), 322
Attributed to Joseph Smith, Jr.
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 392 (27 June 1844)
1840s
History of the Church, 6:184-85 (21 January 1844)
1840s
History of the Church, 6:476 (7 April 1844)
1840s, King Follett discourse (1844)