Wilford Woodruff

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

— Wilford Woodruff

Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing at a time, learn it well, and treasure…

— Wilford Woodruff

It should be our chief study to treasure up the words of life that we may grow in grace and advance in…

— Wilford Woodruff

“Ours is no ordinary calling. Great opportunities and privileges have been bestowed upon us. To us, as a people, has been entrusted…

— Wilford Woodruff

“Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed the Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God…

— Wilford Woodruff

I want to live as long as I can do good; but not an hour longer than I can live in fellowship…

— Wilford Woodruff

If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the…

— Wilford Woodruff

I would advise you to get all of your blessings written and preserve them...I do feel to enjoin it upon you to…

— Wilford Woodruff

I have always looked upon the life of our Savior who descended beneath all things that He might rise above all things…

— Wilford Woodruff

The Lord never had - and never will have to the end of time - a church on the earth without prophets,…

— Wilford Woodruff

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

— Wilford Woodruff

When brother Brigham and brother Joseph Young went up to see the Prophet, they found him chopping wood; for he was a…

— Wilford Woodruff

I was in Nauvoo on the 26th of May, 1846, for the last time, and left the city of the Saints feeling…

— Wilford Woodruff

I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to…

— Wilford Woodruff

Our children should be indoctrinated in the principles of the Gospel from their earliest childhood. They should be made familiar with the…

— Wilford Woodruff

“It should be our chief study to treasure up the words of life that we may grow in grace and advance in…

— Wilford Woodruff

Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to…

— Wilford Woodruff

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

— Wilford Woodruff

The object is not so much to get you to keep a journal while you are young, as it is to get…

— Wilford Woodruff

Every man should write a brief history of his life: his parentage, his birth, his religion, when he was baptized and by…

— Wilford Woodruff

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

— Wilford Woodruff

“When we read any portion of Scripture, which did not agree with our traditions, every man had his own system of spiritualizing,…

— Wilford Woodruff

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to…

— Wilford Woodruff

Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of…

— Wilford Woodruff

... wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham…

— Wilford Woodruff