Controversial Sayings

There is an infinite number of holy personages, drawn from worlds without number, who have passed on to exaltation and are thus gods.

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 by false tradition and ceremonies, borrowed from pa…

When all the rest of the children have received their blessings in the Holy Priesthood, then that curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and they will then come up and possess the Priesthood, and receive all the blessings which we are now entit…

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

And behold, how oft you have transgressed the commandments and the laws of God, and have gone on in the persuasions of men.

It is our divine destiny to be heirs of eternal life, to become 'priests and kings . . . [and] gods, even the sons of God . . . [and to] dwell in the presence of God . . . forever and ever.'

We never can comprehend the things of God and of heaven but by revelation.

Any man that does not receive revelation must be damned.

God did not make the earth out of nothing—for it is contrary to a rational mind and reason that a something could be brought from a nothing.

Love is one of the leading characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the Sons of God. A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the world, anxious to bles…

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.

I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable.

But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive th…

At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they seem to cling together, And form 'associations' here, Yet, soon or late, they burst their tether, And…

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

The world may be utterly crazy, and life may be labour in vain; But I'd rather be silly than lazy, and would not quit life for its pain.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importa…