Here I have posted the most thought-provoking and consciousness shifting quotes from Mormon leaders that I could find. These quotes may be inspiring, surprising, and even shocking but none the less all of them have been verified and are in fact as true and accurate as the sources can be.
The primary source for these quotes is the history of the church in itself - including journals of the leaders, stake and general conference addresses, periodicals, and interviews. Be warned some of these may challenge your belief system, some may make you laugh and some may show you bluntly the apostasy of the church.
"I have tried for a number of years to get the minds of the Saints prepared to receive the things of God; but we frequently see some of them, after suffering all they have for the work of God, will fly to pieces like glass as soon as anything comes contrary to their traditions: they cannot stand the fire at all..." -Joseph Smith, Jr.
[Jan. 20, 1844; D.H.C. 6:185]
I love the man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite. -Joseph Smith, Jr.
(HC 5:401.) (Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 217)
"We have heard men who hold the priesthood remark that they would do anything they were told to do by those who preside over them even if they knew it was wrong; but such obedience is worse than folly to us; it is slavery in the extreme; and the man who would thus willingly degrade himself, should not claim a rank among intelligent beings, until he turns from his folly. A man of God would despise the idea. Others, in the extreme exercise of their almighty authority have taught that such obedience was necessary, and that no matter what the saints were told to do by their presidents, they should do it without any questions. When Elders of Israel will so far indulge in these extreme notions of obedience as to teach them to the people, it is generally because they have it in their hearts to do wrong themselves." -Joseph Smith, (Jr. Joseph Smith, the Millennial Star, Vol 14, # 38, pages 593-595)
"If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. If you will not accuse me, I will not accuse you...What many people call sin is not sin. I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down." -Joseph Smith, Jr. "Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet...When they can get rid of me, the devil will also go." -Joseph Smith, Jr. (History of the Church, Vol. 6, pp. 408, 409)
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