B. H. Roberts famous quotes

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago....
-- B. H. Roberts

#Faith #Spirit
There were other Anti-Christs among the Nephites, but they were more military leaders than religious innovators... they are all of one breed and brand; so nearly alike that one mind is the author of them, and that a young and underdeveloped, but piously inclined mind. The evidence I sorrowfully submit, points to Joseph Smith as their creator. It is difficult to believe that they are a product of history, that they came upon the scene separated by long periods of time, and among a race which was the ancestral race of the red man of America.
-- B. H. Roberts

#Religious #Military #Believe
A temple, first of all, is a place of prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy sanctuary--a temple.
-- B. H. Roberts

#Prayer #Men #Sanctuary
Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other.Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin
-- B. H. Roberts

#Book #Views #Two
The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother Hyrum,... It possessed the qualities of Urim & Thummim, since by means of it - as described above - as well by means of the Interpreters found with the Nephite record, Joseph was able to translate the characters engraven on the plates.
-- B. H. Roberts

#Brother #Character #Mean
The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.
-- B. H. Roberts

#Polygamy
First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man's; that he possesses body, parts and passions; that in a word, God is an exalted, perfected man. Secondly, we believe in a plurality of Gods. Third, we believe that somewhere and some time in the ages to come, through development, through enlargement, through purification until perfection is attained, man at last may become like God - a God.
-- B. H. Roberts

#Believe #Passion #Men
I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.
-- B. H. Roberts

#Children #Father #Purpose
[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.
-- B. H. Roberts

#Government #Political #Earth

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.
One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.
The only true disability is a crushed spirit
The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.
When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.

B. H. Roberts famous quotes

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