In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it.
- Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church, v. 6, pp. 307, 308
If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.
- Apostle Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, v. 2, p. 345, February 18, 1855
Intelligent beings are organized to become Gods, even the sons of God, to dwell in the presence of the Gods, and become associated with the highest intelligencies [sic] that dwell in eternity.
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 8, p. 160, September 2, 1860
[Jesus] by MARRYING MANY honorable WIVES himself, show to all future generations that HE approbated the PLURALITY OF WIVES under the Christian dispensation, as well as under the dispensation in which His Polygamist ancestors lived. (Mormon Apostle Pratt The Seer. page 172)
#1It is because the Lord called Joseph Smith that salvation is again available to mortal men....If it had not been for Joseph Smith and the restoration, there would be no salvation, ( Mormon Doctrine, p. 396, 670)
Book of Mormon
The book of Mormon is more correct than the Bible, (History of the Church, 4:461).
God used to be a man on another planet, (Mormon Doctrine, p. 321; Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, vol. 5, p. 613-614
There are many gods, (Mormon Doctrine, p. 163). And they (the Gods) said: Let there be light: and there was light, (Book of Abraham 4:3)
If it had not been for Joseph Smith and the restoration, there would be no salvation. There is no salvation [the context is the full gospel including exaltation to Godhood] outside the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Mormon Doctrine, p. 670)
One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan and propounded by man is that man is saved alone by the grace of God; that belief in Jesus Christ alone is all that is needed for salvation, (Miracle of Forgiveness, Spencer W. Kimball, p. 206)
(Miracle of Forgiveness, Spencer W. Kimball, p. 206)