"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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"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."
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"In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!"
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"What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands."
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"Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none."
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"Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault."
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-Lemuel K. Washburn
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"I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl."
-Vince Neil
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"Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism."
-Sydney Schanberg
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"Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand."
-Frederick II
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
-John Woolman
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