Oliver Cowdery famous quotes

Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face,
-- Oliver Cowdery

#Faces #Strive

It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger.
-- Oliver Cowdery

#Men #Years #Add

I have not come to seek place, nor to interfere with the business and calling of those men who have borne the burden since the death of Joseph. I throw myself at your feet, and wish to be one of your number, and be a mere member of the Church, and my mere asking to be baptized is an end to all pretensions to authority.
-- Oliver Cowdery

#Men #Feet #Numbers

When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that what I had said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deviated from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.
-- Oliver Cowdery

#Dirty #Matter #Nasty

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.
-- Oliver Cowdery

#Judgment #Revelations #Authority

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that,

For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed...

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.