Wilford Woodruff famous quotes

If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Giving Up #Bird #Grace

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

#Thinking #Events #Importance

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

#Anger #Men #Weakness

Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is the warfare that commenced in heaven, that has existed through all time, and that will continue until the winding up scene, until He reigns whose right it is to reign, when He shall come in clouds of glory to reward every man according to the deeds done in the body.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Men #Light #Clouds

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.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Angel #Men #Miracle

Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I have often said it is the mother who forms the mind of the child. Take men anywhere, at sea, sinking with their ship, dying in battle, lying down in death almost under any circumstances, and the last thing they think if, the last word they say is "mother." Such is the influence of woman.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Mother #Children #Lying

Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits . . . noble spirits before God.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Men #Choices #Heaven

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.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Prayer #Zion #Trust In God

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.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Prayer #Humble #Faithful

Our children should be indoctrinated in the principles of the Gospel from their earliest childhood. They should be made familiar with the contents of the Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants. These should be their chief text books, and everything should be done to establish and promote in their hearts genuine faith in God, in His Gospel and its ordinances, and in His works.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Children #Book #Heart

Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let his heart be true and unflinching, let his life be pure, and, if we add to these humility, he is protected against a multitude of weaknesses and can resist a host of temptations. We all have our weaknesses; God has permitted them that we might be taught humility in ourselves and charity towards others.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Integrity #Heart #Character

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.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Children #Reading #Writing

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.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Thinking #Blessing #Names

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

#Understanding #Veils #World

When brother Brigham and brother Joseph Young went up to see the Prophet, they found him chopping wood; for he was a labouring man, and gained his bread by the sweat of his brow. They made themselves acquainted with him. He received them gladly, invited them to his house, and they rejoiced together in the Gospel of Christ, and their hearts were knitted together in the spirit and bond of union.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Brother #Heart #Men

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

#Past #Doe #Polygamy

There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculate or encourage polygamy... And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Teaching #Law #Land

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.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Followers #Might #Example

We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Running #Fashion #Children

Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to labor in the cause of salvation and if we go hence we expect to continue our work until the coming of the Son of Man. The only difference is, while we are here we are subject to pain and sorrow, while they on the other side are free from affliction of every kind.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Pain #Son #Men

When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the spirit leaves the body dead to us, and passes to the other side of the veil alive to that great and noble company that are also working for the accomplishment of the purpose of God, in the redemption and salvation of a fallen world.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Loss #Thinking #Accomplishment

The Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Thanksgiving #Church #Four

I would say to bishops, and to all men in authority, we should have an interest in carrying on this work. We should labor to get the Spirit of God. It is our right, our privilege, and our duty to call upon the Lord, that the vision of our mind may be opened, so that we may see and understand the day and age in which we are living. It is your privilege, and mine too, to know the mind and will of the Lord concerning our duties, and if we fail to seek after this, we neglect to magnify our calling.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Men #Mind #Vision

Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then learn another truth and treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a great store of useful knowledge....
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Years #Treasure #Discouraged

While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet I wish to say to my brethren and sisters that these things are the heritage of the Saints of God. … I have never read of the people of God in any dispensation passing through life, as the sectarian world would say, on flowery beds of ease, without opposition of any kind.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Past #People #Wish

I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the program. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from the oracles of God and from their duty.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Children #Men #Israel

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

#Men #Dead Man

I was in Nauvoo on the 26th of May, 1846, for the last time, and left the city of the Saints feeling that most likely I was taking a final farewell of Nauvoo for this life. I looked upon the temple and city as they receded from view and asked the Lord to remember the sacrifices of His Saints.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Farewell #Sacrifice #Views

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

#Men #President #Church

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

#Writing #Lord

... wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham which leadeth to a Celestial Glory... for whosoever doeth those things shall be damned Saith the Lord.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Law #People #House

Joseph Smith visited me a great deal after his death, and taught me many important principles. . . . Among other things, he told me to get the Spirit of God; that all of us needed it. . . . He said, "I want you to teach the people to get the Spirit of God. You cannot build up the Kingdom of God without that." . . . But how is it with the Holy Ghost? The Holy Ghost does not leave me if I do my duty. It does not leave any man who does his duty.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Men #People #Important

The Lamanites [Native Americans], now a down-trodden people, are a remnant of the house of Israel. The curse of God has followed them as it has done the Jews, though the Jews have not been darkened in their skin as have the Lamanites.
-- Wilford Woodruff

#Native American #Israel #People