Wilford Woodruff Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• 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

  Wilford Woodruff, Reid Larkin Neilson, Jan Shipps (2011). “In the Whirlpool: The Pre-manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885-1890”, Arthur H Clark

• 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 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

• 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

  Wilford Woodruff, Brian H. Stuy (1988). “Collected Discourses of President Wilford Woodruff, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others, 1890-1892”

• 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 to go; but I want to do what is required of me.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Father, Long, Heaven

  Wilford Woodruff (2015). “Leaves from my Journal”, p.93, Noodle-Doo Studios

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