Quotes from Bruce R. McConkie

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.

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.

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

God stands revealed or remains forever unknown.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Salvation is a family affair.

People who study the scriptures get a dimension to their life that nobody else gets and that can't be gained in any way except by studying the scriptures. There's an increase in faith and a desire to do what's right and a feeling of inspiration and understanding that comes to people who study the gospel - and who ponder the principles, that can't come in any other way.

In speaking of these wondrous things I shall use my own words, though you may think they are the words of scripture, words spoken by other Apostles and prophets. True it is they were first proclaimed by others, but they are now mine, for the Holy Spirit of God has borne witness to me that they are true, and it is now as though the Lord had revealed them to me in the first instance. I have thereby heard his voice and know his word.

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.

every person who walks uprightly, does the best that he can, overcomes the world, rises above carnality, and walks in paths of righteousness will have his acts and his deeds sealed and approved by the Holy Spirit.

Prayer is a great tower of strength, a pillar of unending righteousness, a mighty force that moves mountains and saves souls. Through it the sick are healed, the dead are raised, and the Holy Spirit is poured out without measure upon the faithful.

Salvation is in Christ, not the Holy Ghost; our Blessed Lord redeemed us and the Holy Ghost is his messenger to carry the message of redeeming grace into the hearts of men. Thus, the joyous words spoken by the Holy Ghost are in reality the words of Christ. The Spirit is simply the one who delivers the word.

Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the three heavens within the celestial kingdom. With few exceptions this is the salvation of which the scriptures speak. It is the salvation which the saints seek. (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed., Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966, p. 670.)

People who study the scriptures get a dimension to their life that nobody else gets and that can't be gained in any way except by studying the scriptures. There's an increase in faith and a desire to do what's right and a feeling of inspiration and understanding that comes to people who study the gospel - meaning particularly the Standard Works - and who ponder the principles, that can't come in any other way.

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 do not know, we cannot tell, no mortal mind can conceive the full import of what Christ did in Gethsemane.

our work - is to do the part assigned to us in order to inherit the glory and honor and dignity of which I speak.

As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality.