Wilford Woodruff Quotes

This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice.

With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.

Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.

The living Lord leads His living church.

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

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in the small events of life as well as when they are confronted with the giant Goliaths of life.

Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.

I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.

Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being 'established' in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears His name. He stands at its head and directs it through His chosen prophets.

The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.

Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.

Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.

I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.

I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.

We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction.

When God's leading and directing, you don't have to kick the doors open.

Joseph Smith visited me a great deal after his death, and taught me many important principles. . . . Among other things, he told me to get the Spirit of God; that all of us needed it. . . . He said, "I want you to teach the people to get the Spirit of God. You cannot build up the Kingdom of God without that." . . . But how is it with the Holy Ghost? The Holy Ghost does not leave me if I do my duty. It does not leave any man who does his duty.