Tad R. Callister

Joseph Smith restored the truth that there are multiple heavens. When Joseph Smith came on the scene, perhaps 100 pieces were in place.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > November 2009

Tad R. Callister

Joseph Smith restored the truth that there are multiple heavens. When Joseph Smith came on the scene, perhaps 100 pieces were in place.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > November 2009

Gordon B. Hinckley

Gordon B. Hinckley Liahona May 2005 My brothers and sisters, as we have been reminded, we will commemorate next December the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith. The book tells that upon hearing of Joseph’s encounter with the angel, his brother Alvin suggested that the family get together and listen to him as he detailed “the great things which God has revealed to you” (Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors of Many Generations [1853], 84).

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > May 2005

James E. Faust

However, they lack the spiritual confirmation that Joseph Smith actually saw in vision the Father and the Son and that an angel delivered to Joseph Smith the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated. I knew that Joseph Smith received revelations from God.” It changed her life because now she too was a convert! 16 For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > November 2003

Thomas S. Monson

On December 23, 1805, Joseph Smith Jr. was born in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. Although young Joseph was lame for some time afterward, he was healed. 1 At such a young age and countless other times throughout his life, Joseph Smith taught us courage—by example.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > November 2005

Thomas S. Monson

On December 23, 1805, Joseph Smith Jr. was born in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. Although young Joseph was lame for some time afterward, he was healed. 1 At such a young age and countless other times throughout his life, Joseph Smith taught us courage—by example.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > November 2005

Gordon B. Hinckley

The second is the vision given the Prophet Joseph Smith when the Father and the Son appeared to him. The second cornerstone—the first vision of the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > November 1984

Henry B. Eyring

The Spirit will testify the truth to their hearts every time they read in the scriptures which came to us through the Prophet Joseph Smith. Now listen to these words from scripture translated by Joseph Smith.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > November 2003

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

This is how Joseph Smith’s First Vision blesses our own personal lives, the lives of families, and eventually the whole human family—we come to believe in Jesus Christ through the testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith. As we remember and honor the Prophet Joseph Smith, my heart reaches out to him in gratitude.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > May 2005

Robert D. Hales

Fourteen years later, on December 23, 1805, the Prophet Joseph Smith was born. Joseph received the gold plates four years later and, in December of 1827, began to translate the Book of Mormon. 13 While translating, Joseph Smith and his scribe Oliver Cowdery read about

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > November 2005

Robert D. Hales

The life of Joseph Smith and the pattern of the Restoration are excellent examples of this process. Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > November 2003

Neal A. Maxwell

As President Faust reminded us yesterday, of his own imperfections, Joseph said, “I never told you I was perfect—but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught” (Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook, The Words of Joseph Smith [1980], 369). If Joseph Smith had been the conduit for only one such divine revelation, it would be, standing alone, sufficient to ensure his prophetic greatness.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > November 2003

Neal A. Maxwell

As you already know, these “finds” are but a portion of the abundant Restoration, reflecting the remarkable ministry of the Prophet Joseph Smith, through whom there was such an outpouring. Prior to meeting Joseph Smith, Brigham Young said he would have crawled around the earth on his hands and knees to meet someone like Moses who could tell him anything “about God and heaven.” (In Journal of Discourses, 8:228.) Through Joseph Smith we have additional pages from Moses about God and heaven.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > May 1986

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Joseph B. Wirthlin Ensign November 1999 I am very humbled by this great responsibility to address this body of brethren who hold the priesthood of God. Joseph Smith said, “[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of his law and ordinances.” 8 God’s commandments are not given to limit or punish us.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > November 1999

Neal A. Maxwell

Courage is one of Joseph Smith’s special qualities. See Millennial Star, 25:139.) Brigham Young was not easily impressed by anybody, yet he said he felt like shouting “Hallelujah!” all the time that he ever knew Joseph Smith!

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > May 1992

Neal A. Maxwell

After all, early Christians were merely called “the sect of the Nazarenes.” (Acts 24:5.) Like his predecessors, Joseph Smith reflected some of the anxieties and activities of his time and period. And as he did not claim these things for himself, so can they not be claimed for him by others. …   “Yet to Joseph Smith was given,” said Brother Roberts, “access to the mind of Deity, through the revelations of God to him.” (Comprehensive History, 2:360–61.) In fact, brothers and sisters, the Prophet Jos

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > November 1984

Dallin H. Oaks

When Joseph Smith, Sr., was dying, his children gathered to receive his final blessing. After first blessing his wife, Father Smith began with Hyrum, his eldest, and gave each child what he called a “dying blessing” (see Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1956, pp. 308–13; Pearson H. Corbett, Hyrum Smith, Patriarch, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1963, pp. 240–41).

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > May 1987

Jeffrey R. Holland

Lessons from Liberty Jail The truths Joseph received while in Liberty Jail reveal that God was not only teaching Joseph Smith in that prison circumstance, but He was also teaching all of us, for generations yet to come. As individuals, as families, as communities, and as nations, probably everyone has had or will have an occasion to feel as Joseph Smith felt when he cried from the depth and discouragement of his confinement: “O God, where art thou?

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > September 2009

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Prophet Joseph Smith was a preeminent witness of the living Christ. Joseph Smith never saw the day of which we are a part, except through the vision of a seer.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > January 1997

Ezra Taft Benson

Joseph Smith received the Word of Wisdom in 1833. Relate your feelings about the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > March 1994