Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
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… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
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… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“They sighed: "This leadeth to captivity-- Perchance destruction, ending dark and dire. Yet must we yield to human liberty Its own, e'en though a… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
