History of the Church Quotes

“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound. ”
― Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church

“Saddening as the thought may seem, the Church founded by the labors of Jesus and His Apostles was destroyed from the earth; the Gospel was perverted; its ordinances were changed; its laws were transgressed; its covenant was, on the part of man, broken; and the world was left to flounder in the darkness of a long period of apostasy from God. ”
― Joseph Smith Jr., The History of the Church - All Seven Volumes - The Complete Latter-Day Saint Reference