Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life.
The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.
Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.
Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other. Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin
A temple, first of all, is a place of prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man seeking the infinite in God. ' Where they find each other, there is holy sanctuary--a temple.
There were other Anti-Christs among the Nephites, but they were more military leaders than religious innovators. . . they are all of one breed and brand; so nearly alike that one mind is the author of them, and that a young and underdeveloped, but piously inclined mind. The evidence I sorrowfully submit, points to Joseph Smith as their creator. It is difficult to believe that they are a product of history, that they came upon the scene separated by long periods of time, and among a race which was the ancestral race of the red man of America.
[T]he kingdom of God. . . is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.
But it must not be forgotten that. . . glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes of art, and without the guidance of correct scientific principles.
A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.
It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being
History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.