Browsing Quotes By Joseph F. Smith
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Kindness will beget friendship and favor, but anger or passion will drive away sympathy. To win one’s respect and confidence, approach him mildly, kindly. No friendship was ever gained by an attack upon principle or upon man, but by calm reason and the lowly Spirit of Truth.
If you have built for a man a better house than his own, and he is willing to accept yours and forsake his, then, and not till then, should you proceed to tear down the old structure. Rotten though it may be it will require some time for it to lose all its charms and fond memories of its former occupant. Therefore let him, not you, proceed to tear it away. Kindness and courtesy are the primal elements of gentility.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithSource: Letter of 18 May 1896 to Hyrum M. Smith, in From Prophet to Son, pp. 42-43Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God forbid that there should be any of us so unwisely indulgent, so thoughtless and so shallow in our affection for our children that we dare not check them in a wayward course, in wrongdoing and in their foolish love for the things of the world more than for the things of righteousness, for fear of offending them.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithSource: Gospel Doctrine, p. 286Posted: 26 Feb 2012 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Not only is it necessary to have faith in God, but also in Jesus Christ, his Son, the Savior of mankind and the Mediator of the New Covenant; and in the Holy Ghost, who bears record of the Father and the Son, “the same in all ages and forever.”
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithPosted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
First … it is necessary to have faith in God, faith being the first principle in revealed religion, and the foundation of all righteousness. Faith in God is to believe that he is, and “that he is the only supreme Governor and independent Being, in whom all fulness and perfection and every good gift and principle dwell independently,” and in whom the faith of all other rational beings must centre for life and salvation; and further, that he is the great Creator of all things, that he is omnipotent, omniscient, and by his works and the power of his Spirit omnipresent.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithSource: Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith, 6: Faith: The Foundation of All RighteousnessPosted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One who can truly affirm that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, and Jesus is the Savior, has in his possession a prize beyond computation. When we know this we know God, and we have a key to all knowledge.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not let your children out to specialists…, but teach them by your own precept and example, by your own fireside. Be a specialist yourself in the truth.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Brethren, there is too little religious devotion, love, and fear of God in the home; too much worldliness, selfishness, indifference, and lack of reverence in the family, or it would never exist so abundantly on the outside. Then, the home is what needs reforming. Try today, and tomorrow, to make a change in your home.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!