Claim Your Mormon Identity

Here is what Joseph Smith said regarding the rights of the Latter Day Saints to “embrace all, and every item of truth”:

“… Mormonism is truth, in other words the doctrine of the Latter-day Saints, is truth. … The first and fundamental principle of our holy religion is, that we believe that we have a right to embrace all, and every item of truth, without limitation or without being circumscribed or prohibited by the creeds or superstitious notions of men, or by the dominations of one another, when that truth is clearly demonstrated to our minds, and we have the highest degree of evidence of the same.”

– Letter from Joseph Smith to Isaac Galland, Mar. 22, 1839, Liberty Jail, Liberty, Missouri, published in Times and Seasons, Feb. 1840, pp. 53–54; spelling and grammar modernized.

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Would to God, brethren, I could tell you who I am! Would to God I could tell you what I know! But you would call it blasphemy, and there are men upon this stand who would want to take my life.
Joseph Smith Jr 1843 Photograph
Joseph Smith, JrQuoted by Orson F. Whtiney, Life of Heber C. Kimball
“Mormonism” includes all truth. There is no truth but what belongs to the Gospel. It is life, eternal life; it is bliss; it is the fulness of all things in the gods and in the eternities of the gods.
Brigham Young by Charles William Carter
Brigham YoungQuote from The Teachings of The Presidents: The Gospel Defined
...those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.
Joseph Smith Jr portrait owned by Joseph Smith III
Joseph Smith, Jr.History of the Church, 3:381 (27 June 1839)