Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.

God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret.... It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know... that he was once a man like us.... Here, then, is eternal life - to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves... the same as all Gods have done before you.

How I do love to hear the wolves howl!

Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God... God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God" -John Taylor recalls the words of Joseph Smith to the Twelve. JS manual page 231

Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive.

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.