"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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