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Joseph Smith
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If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.
— History of the Church, 5:336 (6 April 1843)
Joseph Smith
Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and prophet (1805–1844)
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Lived 1805–1844, aged 39United States
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At 24 he published a book he said came from golden plates shown to him by an angel, and by his death at 38 had drawn tens of thousands into a new American faith. Millions follow the church he founded; a mob killed him in an Illinois jail.
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Born in Vermont in 1805, Joseph Smith Jr. moved with his family to western New York after crop failures left them struggling. In 1820, during the fever of the Second Great Awakening, he reported seeing two personages he later identified as God the Father and Jesus Christ. Three years later an angel directed him to buried golden plates inscribed with an ancient American civilization's history. He published the Book of Mormon in 1830 as their translation and organized the Church of Christ the same year, calling it a restoration of early Christianity. Smith led his followers west to build a commu…
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Joseph Smith
said
Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.
— Doctrine and Covenants, 127:2 (1 September 1842)
Joseph Smith
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Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand, and watch over them with tenderness.
— History of the Church, 5:23–24 (9 June 1842)
Joseph Smith
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That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another.
— Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 256 (11 April 1842)
Joseph Smith
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A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge.
— History of the Church, 4:588 (10 April 1842)
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