Wilford Woodruff Quotes

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

The more I'm persecuted, the stronger I get.

My faith was tested like Job. That's the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don't mean things not gonna happen to you.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.