Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

As temples of the Holy Spirit. we should have communion with the Holy Spirit. The work of any believer is not only the work of a human individual, but is actually the work of the Holy Spirit.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.

Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.

An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

Christianity is the supernatural operation of the Holy Spirit.The faith once delivered to the saints is a miracle gospel, a miracle salvation with physical evidences.

Together we shall move forward doing [the Lord's] work

We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs.

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.

Now is the moment in the timetable of the Lord to carry the gospel farther than it has ever been carried before.... Many a person in this world is crying, knowingly and unknowingly, 'Come over ... and help us.' He might be your neighbor. She might be your friend. He might be a relative. She might be someone you met only yesterday. But we have what they need. Let us take new courage from our studies and pray, as did Peter, 'And now, Lord, ... grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word'

What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.