"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."
-Joseph Smith, Jr.
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"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.“
-Joseph Smith, Jr.
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