Quote#God & Faith
We shall have sufficient difficulty from abroad without stirring up…
Quote byEmma Smith · 1804–1879
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, August 4, 1842, compiled in 1.2.16 of Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds., The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016). Min.
English (original)
We shall have sufficient difficulty from abroad without stirring up strife among ourselves and hardness and evil feelings one towards another, etc. … We could govern this generation in one way if not another. If not by the mighty arm of power, we can do it by faith and prayer. If we will try to live uprightly… we should not be driven.
— Emma Smith
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