![]() ![]() Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., in Palmer, An Insider's View of Mormonism, p. After beholding all that I had any desire to behold I returned to my room to meditate and calm my mind. Their is something in every countinance that is disagreable with few exceptions. The iniquity of the people is printed in every countinance and nothing but the dress of the people makes them look fair and beautiful all is deformity. Their inequities shall be visited upon their heads and their works shall be burned up with unquenchable fire. "This day I have been walking through the most splended part of the city of New York. William McAuly, “The Mormons in Hancock County,” Dallas City Review, May1, 8, 29, 1902, p. At the time his two horses were missed, he would not lay the taking of them to the Saints.” After that incident, he was always suspicious of them. When the ‘Saints' first came to this country they were in a sorry plight, and father helped them in several ways, until after the laying of the cornerstone of the temple. My father was always an old line Whig of Henry Clay school. “Father was inclined to sympathize – as nearly everybody, at that time, did, with the Mormons as they told some tough tales of how they had been run out of the slave state by the people who lived over in Missouri. Thus it seems that the more sublime the faith, the more virulent the hatred it breeds.” And, as one would expect, the feeling of guilt promotes hate and brazenness. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of practice. “A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. “Letter from Wilford Woodruff to Miss Nellie Atkin,” Sept. “I have a large stout man who goes with me everywhere night and day carries 2 pistols and a double barrel shot gun and sayes he will shoot the marshals if they come to take me (Don't tell anybody this) so I am well garded. Marden Clark, “Whose Yoke Is Easy?,” Sunstone Review, November-December 1982, p. I can't help wondering if some of the things we glory in most don't get twisted to support the easy-money hunger.” We almost canonize our Willard Marriotts, our Johnny Millers, our Danny Ainges, our Osmonds. So is our intense preoccupation with and honoring of the wealthy, the famous, the champion. All those hundreds of talks on success are both symptom and cause. It is no accident that some of the best known of the new breed of financial advisors are Mormons. We have placed a good deal of emphasis on success, both monetary and otherwise. “Our emphasis on welfare, food storage, staying out of debt, sound finances, and so forth has made many of us hyper-conscious of the role of money in our lives. Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., Letter to Emma Smith from Carthage Jail, soon before Joseph's murder, letter dated June 27, 1844, 8:20 a.m. Should the last extreme arrive, but I anticipate no such extreme, but caution is the parent of safety.” “There is one principle which is eternal, it is the duty of all men to protect their lives and the lives of their households whenever the necessity requires, and no power has a right to forbid it. ![]() ![]() Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr, sermon on April 7, 1844, Nauvoo, cited in No Man Knows My History, by Fawn Brodie If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself.” I don't blame anyone for not believing my history. I cannot tell it I shall never undertake it. “You don't know me you never knew my heart. ![]() Poll, BYU History professor, as quoted in BYU: A House of Faith, p. It is enough for most of us that they are there.” Relatively few Latter-day Saints read the Nibley books that they give to one another, or the copiously annotated articles that he has contributed to church publications. “After knowing Hugh Nibley for forty years, I am of the opinion that he has been playing games with his readers all along. “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.” “Knowing is often the greatest enemy of learning.” Even if I am wrong, I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.” “For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken by its own merits.” “Trust in a system will help sustain a person through confusion until he reaches the point of no longer caring whether an answer is reasonable or not, or indeed, whether an answer even exists.” ![]()
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