I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if the… - Joseph Smith

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself. . . . When I am called by the trump of the archangel and weighed in the balance, you will all know me then.

The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.