"We believe that as we are now God once was, and by the practice of virtue and righteousness, by obedience unto law and authority, He has become what He is, and as He is, man may become, on the same pr…"

"I am a man of temperance, and I will be temperate in all things."

"I am not afraid of death. I have a conscience void of offense toward God and toward all men."

"If a man marry a wife by my word, which is the word of the Lord, and by the new and everlasting covenant, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise, according to the ordinances of my Ho…"

"You should not have feared man more than God. . . . If thou are not aware thou wilt fall."