Joseph Smith, Jr. Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Heart, Sin

• Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, "Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?" I answer, It is because I possess the principle of love. All I can offer the world is a good heart and a good hand.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Hands, Principles

• You will see the constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread.... A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America.... [T]he land will be left without a Supreme Government,... [Mormonism] will have gathered strength, sending out Elders to gather the honest in heart... to stand by the Constitution of the United States.... In these days... God will set up a Kingdom, never to be thrown down.... [T]he whole of America will be made the Zion of God.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Government, Zion

• It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Children, Father, Teaching

• I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows, orphans, and patriots to be broken, and their wrongs left without redress? No! I invoke the genius of our Constitution. I appeal to the patriotism of Americans to stop this unlawful and unholy procedure; and pray that God may defend this nation from the dreadful effects of such outrages.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Heart, America

• You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I would not have believed it myself.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Believe, Heart, Men

• Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God... God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God" -John Taylor recalls the words of Joseph Smith to the Twelve. JS manual page 231

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Men, Storm

• God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  God, Christian, Religious

• Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Sin, Repent

• It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Adoption, Kingdoms

• We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, All Time, Careful

• It is vain to try and hide a bad spirit from the eyes of them who are spiritual, for it will show itself in speaking and in writing as well as in all other conduct, it is also useless to make great pretensions when the heart is not right before God, for God looks at the heart, and where the heart is not right the Lord will expose it to the view of the faithful.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Spiritual, Eye, Writing

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