Top 80 Mormon Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Mormon Quotes from famous people such as Joseph Smith, Jr., Ezra Taft Benson, Kyrsten Sinema, Penn Jillette, David A. Bednar, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and w

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
Ezra Taft Benson
I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born – although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently – so I was just political from a very early age.
Kyrsten Sinema
Trey Parker did ‘Book of Mormon.’ It’s the best Broadway show I’ve ever seen. He does ‘South Park.’ It’s wonderful.
Penn Jillette
Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of Mormon and bearing testimony spontaneously in the home.
David A. Bednar
My father, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.
Dustin Lance Black
My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for ‘family home evening,’ and I was like, ‘Why aren’t you people ignoring each other and watching television?’
Trey Parker
I’m as thrilled watching Mark Rylance do Shakespeare as I am watching ‘The Book of Mormon.’
Michael Gracey
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Clayton M. Christensen
A young man who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord.
Ezra Taft Benson
I know Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons. We went to the same church. I’m pretty sure he’s still Mormon. I left the church long ago.
Brendon Urie
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret’s School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they’re dancing fools. It’s the only vice they have – dancing.
Michelle Shocked
At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute ‘The Book of Mormon’ for ‘The Bible: The Musical’ or ‘The Quran: The Musical.’
Gavin Creel
The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.
David A. Bednar
The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement’s scripture.
James Fenton
There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people.
Chuck Schumer
I had to learn to navigate the political and religious currents in a state where Mormonism dominates despite not being Mormon.
Ron Stallworth
The Book of Mormon is the ‘keystone’ of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the ‘capstone,’ with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone.
Ezra Taft Benson
Being a Mormon is not a part-time religion. It is your life. You eat, sleep, and breathe Mormonism.
Dan Reynolds
Parents who struggle to get a witness of the Savior into the heart of a child will be helped as they seek for a way to bring the words and the spirit of the Book of Mormon into the home and all the lives in their family.
Henry B. Eyring
Colorado’s right next to Utah – you know, Mormon Central.
Trey Parker
I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein.
Ezra Taft Benson
On the surface, ‘Book of Mormon’ is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there’s a great sweetness and a very positive message.
Stephen Schwartz
Mormons are an extraordinarily educated and professional population. They have all these virtues: They work hard, don’t skip school, have no scandals. Consequently, you find them in a lot of consequential places.
Rodney Stark
I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that he saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a vision. He translated the Book of Mormon by the gift and power of God. That testimony has been confirmed to me over and over again.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Why can’t she move in with you? Is she against that? She’s not a Mormon or anything, is she?
Joseph Bologna
Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon.
Ezra Taft Benson
There is a certain panic, at least if you’re raised Mormon, to being single at 31. But what they don’t tell you is that it can also be kinda great.
Tara Westover
I can tell you, if I’m elected president, it won’t be on the Koran, and it won’t be on the Book of Mormon.
Virgil Goode
The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.
Ezra Taft Benson
That was a misconception among a lot of people – that Mormons are polygamist. No, they’re not. I mean they obviously have that in their history, and there are some fundamentalists.
Trey Parker
In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the

In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as self-sufficient as possible, the community grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and everyone, including children, is expected to help bring in the yield.
Scott Anderson
I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I’m kind of grateful I’ve got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.
Donny Osmond
Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.
Chelsea Handler
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord.
Ezra Taft Benson
I find Mormons adorable.
Trey Parker
My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
Eliza Dushku
I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.
Katherine Heigl
It’s funny because ‘The Book of Mormon’ is ‘The Book of Mormon’ now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for ‘South Park’ fans.
Josh Gad
As a Southerner and as a Mormon you approach life in this aspirational way: ‘I will rise above my station.’
Dustin Lance Black
As an actor, you generally don’t get to choose what projects you are part of, so I’ve been very fortunate that ‘The Book of Mormon’ was something I got to be part of. I don’t want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.
Andrew Rannells
I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it’s become it’s a labor of love. They love what they do.
Charles Osgood
I hate BYU. There are a lot of Mormons that don’t like BYU.
Bryce Harper
I don’t think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.
Kyrsten Sinema
Hearing that the same men who brought us ‘South Park’ were mounting a musical to be called ‘The Book of Mormon,’ we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.
James Fenton
Growing up Mormon, you learn how to be very, very organized, and it’s a passionate group. I mean, in that way, it’s prepared me very well for Hollywood.
Dustin Lance Black
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.
Ezra Taft Benson
In the Mormon Church, we believe we can be married for all eternity, not till death do you part. As Mom was getting older, she was excited, truly excited, that within a few years she’d be with Dad again.
Clayton M. Christensen
I don’t think I met an actual Mormon until college, and by that time, I was wary of them. I knew about the church through school and, secondhand, through non-Mormon friends.
Robert Lopez
Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.
Russell M. Nelson
One of my best friends was gay and Mormon, and I saw how conflicted he was. It was the first time my faith didn’t align with my mind and heart and the first time I was being taught something at church that I was like, ‘Hey, this doesn’t seem right.’
Dan Reynolds
Elder McKinley wants his homosexuality to be turned off. To be a perfect Mormon, he has to put his feelings away.
Rory O’Malley
I think Mormons are good, moral people, but they’re not part of Christianity.
Robert Jeffress
My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.
Katherine Heigl
Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney’s is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.
Jodi Kantor
I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it’s blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn’t working can be painful.
Donny Osmond
All the changes that have happened in my career have been since I left the Mormon faith.
Israel Folau