Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth.

That which has a beginning will surely have an end.

Baptism is a sign to God, to angels, and to heaven that we do the will of God, and there is no other way beneath the heavens whereby God hath ordained for man to come to Him to be saved, and enter into the kingdom of God, except faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, and baptism for the remission of sins, and any other course is in vain; then you have the promise of the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Salvation could not come to the world without the mediation of Jesus Christ.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.