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 Copy Share Image
Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
It should be our chief study to treasure up the words of life that we may grow in grace and advance in the knowledge… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
“Ours is no ordinary calling. Great opportunities and privileges have been bestowed upon us. To us, as a people, has been entrusted the grand and glorious labor of laying the foundation of the kingdom of God upon the earth. Every act of our lives should be performed with this in view. Nothing should be done by anyone calling himself a… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share
“Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed the Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
I want to live as long as I can do good; but not an hour longer than I can live in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, with my Father in heaven, my Savior, and with the faithful Latter-day Saints. To live any longer than this would be torment and misery to me. When my work is done I am ready… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share
If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
I would advise you to get all of your blessings written and preserve them...I do feel to enjoin it upon you to make a… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
I have always looked upon the life of our Savior who descended beneath all things that He might rise above all things as an… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The Lord never had - and never will have to the end of time - a church on the earth without prophets, apostles, and… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . . — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
When brother Brigham and brother Joseph Young went up to see the Prophet, they found him chopping wood; for he was a labouring man,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
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