Pennsylvania Priesthood Restoration Site, Harmony (now Oakland) Introduction Quotes Witnesses Multimedia Key Events Readings Joseph Smith Quotes We were filled with the Holy Ghost, and rejoiced in the God of our salvation. Our minds being now enlightened, we began to have the scriptures laid open to our understandings, and the true meaning of their more mysterious passages revealed unto us, in a manner which we never could attain to previously, nor ever before had thought of. "History of Joseph Smith," Times and Seasons, Aug. 1, 1842, 866. Whenever men can find out the will of God and find an administrator legally authorized from God, there is the kingdom of God; but where these are not, the kingdom of God is not. All the ordinances, systems, and administrations on the earth are of no use to the children of men, unless they are ordained and authorized of God; for nothing will save a man but a legal administrator; for none others will be acknowledged either by God or angels. History of the Church, 5:259.