Orson F. Whitney famous quotes

03-28-2025

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#Education #Mother #Children
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#Pain #Heart #Character
The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#Optimistic #Dark #Men
This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#Mother #Wife #Faithful
There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart: and the Church of Christ, ln its mission of promulgating truth and turning souls of righteousness, has legitimate use for every avenue of the heart.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#Heart #Heaven #Soul
The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#Heart #Recovery #Passion
It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#Mother #Father #Heaven
We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate that which is really important, and to exact and extol what is trivial and of little worth. Many things which are hidden and unrecognized of human wisdom are nevertheless valuable and vitally important.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#Wisdom #Men #Judging
The God we worship is no respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of men's rights, and a guardian of them-a fact clearly shown in the heaven-inspired Constitution of our country, and in the Gospel itself, which might be termed the Constitution of Eternity.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#Country #Men #Rights
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#America #Sake #Tyranny
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#Pain #Suffering #Trials
There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us.
-- Orson F. Whitney

#Important #Messages #Missionary

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