Wilford Woodruff Quotes

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

Trust in God. Do your duty. Remember your prayers. Get faith in the Lord, and take hold and build up Zion. All will be right.

You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; . . . but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.

It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.

I have always looked upon the life of our Savior who descended beneath all things that He might rise above all things as an example for His followers.

Should we not have respect enough to God to make a record of those blessings which He pours out upon us and our official acts which we do in His name upon the face of the earth? I think we should.

This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions.