Bruce R. McConkie Quotes

The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.

But I shall not know any better then than I know now that he is God’s Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer, and that salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in no other way.

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.

We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.

Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.

Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium.

No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.

Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.

Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.

We expect to see the day when temples will dot the earth, each one a house of the Lord.

There is no such thing as neutrality where the gospel is concerned.

God... is a personal Being, a holy and exalted man.

Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation.

As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

Salvation is a family affair.

All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.

There is nothing as important as having the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

We make our own choices, and then we present the matter to the Lord and get his approving, ratifying seal.

I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality

Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.

Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness.

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god’s dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on

The Atonement of Christ is the most transcendental event that has ever occurred or that will ever occur, since the sunrise of creation to all ages of eternity

Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord’s desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls.

There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.

It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.

God stands revealed or remains forever unknown.

His rising from death on the third day crowned the Atonement. Again, in some way incomprehensible to us, the effects of his resurrection pass upon all men so that all shall rise from the grave.

Before an empty tomb, we will come to know that Christ our Lord has burst the bands of death and stands forever triumphant over the grave.

We must search the scriptures, accepting them as the mind and will and voice of the Lord and the very power of God unto salvation.