The only true believers are they who prove their belief by their obedience to the requirements of the gospel.--J. of D., Vol. I., p. 234. A flock of sheep consisting of thousands must be clean indeed if some of them are not smutty.--J. of D., Vol. I., p. 213. The gospel of salvation is perfectly calculated to cause division. It strikes at the root of the very existence of mankind in their wickedness, evil designs, passions and wicked calculations. There is no evil among the human family, but at the foundation of which it strikes effectually, and comes in contact with every evil passion that rises in the heart of man. It is opposed to every evil practice of men, and consequently it disturbs them in the wicked courses they are pursuing.--J. of D., Vol. I., p. 235. The God Mr. Baptist believes in is without body, parts or passions. The God that his "brother Mormon" believes in is described in the Bible as being a personage of tabernacle, having eyes to see, for he that made the eye shall he not see? Having ears to hear, for his ears are open to hear the prayers of the righteous. He has limbs that He can walk, for the Lord God walked in the garden in the cool of the day. He conversed with His children, as in the case of Moses at the fiery bush, and with Abraham on the plains of Mamre. He also ate and drank with Abraham and others. That is, the God the Mormons believe in, but their very religious Christian brethren do not believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which is the God the Bible sets forth, as an organized corporeal being.--J. of D., Vol. I., p. 238. It is a mistaken idea to suppose that others can prevent me from enjoying the light of God in my soul; all hell cannot hinder me from enjoying Zion in my own heart, if my individual will yields obedience to the requirements and mandates of my heavenly Master.--J. of D., Vol. I., p. 311. Children have all confidence in their mothers; and if mothers would take proper pains, they can instill into the hearts of their children what they please. You will, no doubt, recollect reading, in the Book of Mormon, of two thousand young men, who were brought up to believe that, if they put their whole trust in God, and served Him no power would overcome them. You also recollect reading of them going out to fight, and so bold were they, and so mighty their faith, that it was impossible for their enemies to slay them. This power and faith they obtained through the teachings of their mothers.--J. of D., Vol. I., p. 67. That moment that men seek to build up themselves, in preference to the kingdom of God, and seek to hoard up riches, while the widow and the fatherless, the sick and afflicted around them are in poverty and want, it proves that their hearts are weaned from their God.--J. of D., Vol. I., p. 273. It is as much as we can do to keep the Christians of the nineteenth century from cutting our throats because we differ from them in our religious belief.--J. of D., Vol. VII., p. 165.