"I wish to do something to distinguish myself, and so I am going to get up a religion."

"This church, being 'the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased.'"

"I will prophesy that the Saints will continue to suffer much affliction, and will be driven to and fro, from the east to the west, and from the north to the south, until they are purified."

"For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation that was not, in the year 1820, so obscured b…"

"I am a man of humility, and I will be humble in all things."