Arrogance
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Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr.
(1805 – 1844):
"...if any man preach
any other Gospel than that which I have preached,
he shall be cursed; "
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Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., The Teachings of the
Prophet Joseph Smith,
p. 366, also in History
of the Church,
v. 6, p.365
“Come on! ye
persecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil
over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come
out on top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man
had. I am the only man that has been able to keep a whole church
together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole
have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did
it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The
followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never
ran away from me yet... When they can get rid of me, the devil will
also go.”
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Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church,
v. 6, pp. 408-409
Prophet Brigham Young (1801 – 1877):
“If I had forty wives
in the United States, they did not know it, and
could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or
magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.”
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Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses,
v. 1, p. 361
“Brother Cannon
remarked that people wondered how many wives and
children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children
by the million, and glory, and riches, and power, and dominion, and
kingdom after kingdom, and reign triumphantly.”
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Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses,
v. 8, pp. 178-179
“If you do not know
whose right it is to give revelations, I will tell
you. It is I.”
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Prophet Brigham Young, “October Conference Minutes
[October 6, 1844],” Times and Seasons, October 15, 1844, v. 5,
no. 19, p. 683
“I have never preached
a sermon and sent it out to the children of men,
that they may not call scripture.”
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Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses,
v. 13, p. 95
“ ‘Brother Brigham,’
said I, with a firmness of resistance I had never
before felt in his presence, ‘are you my Saviour?’
‘Most assuredly I am,’
said he. ‘You cannot enter the Celestial
kingdom, except by my counsel. Do you doubt it?’”
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Mary Ettie V. Smith, quoted in Nelson Winch Green, Mormonism:
it’s rise, progress, and present condition. Embracing the narrative of
Mrs. Mary Ettie V. Smith, 1858, 1870 ed., p. 201
Prophet Wilford
Woodruff (1807-1898):
“… kings would tremble
upon their thrones at my word…. I should become
a Counsellor & multitudes should seek counsel at my mouth & I
should have great wisdom & power to fly through the midst under
heaven… I should have power over my enemies & have long life &
bring many into the kingdom of God Also that I should have the riches
of the earth.”
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Prophet Wilford Woodruff, 1836-1837 Diary, under
April 4 11, 1837, reprinted in Dean Jessee, “The Kirtland Diary of
Wilford Woodruff,” BYU
Studies, Summer
1972, v. 12, p. 388
