18 Quotes by Wilford Woodruff

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

The Lord never had – and never will have to the end of time – a church on the earth without prophets, apostles, and inspired men. Whenever the Lord had a people on the earth that he acknowledged as such, that people were led by revelation.