Rebuke
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- Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 113
- "I frequently rebuke and admonish my brethren, and that because I love them ..."
- Rebuking doesn't win friends, and the higher the authority, the more necessary it becomes to rebuke.
- "[Rebukes] actually constitute one of the duties of my station and calling."
- It is not one of the more enviable duties one may have.
- Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 125
- Dissenters unjustly offended by just reproofs.
- The Saints offer no retractions.
- Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 138
- "Flattery is also a deadly poison. A frank and open rebuke provoketh a good man to emulation; and in the hour of trouble he will be your best friend; but on the other hand, it will draw out all the corruptions of corrupt hearts, and lying and the poison of asps is under their tongues; and they do cause the pure in heart to be cast into prison, because they want them out of their way."
- Joseph Smith, "The King Follett Sermon"
- "I have no enmity against any man. I love you all; but I hate some of your deeds. I am your best friend, and if persons miss their mark it is their own fault. If I reprove a man, and he hates me, he is a fool; for I love all men, especially these my brethren and sisters."