Bruce R. McConkie Quotes

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• I stand before the Church this day and raise the warning voice. ... It is a voice calling upon the Lords people to prepare for the troubles and desolations which are about to be poured out upon the world without measure. For the moment we live in a day of peace and prosperity but it shall not ever be thus. Great trials lie ahead. All of the sorrows and perils of the past are but a foretaste of what is yet to be. And we must prepare ourselves temporally and spiritually.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Lying, Past, Voice

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

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  Feet, Church, World

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• 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.

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  Marriage, Important, Doe

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• We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work all our days. This mortal probation is one in which we are to eat our bread in the sweat of our faces until we return to the dust from whence we came. Work is the law of life; it is the ruling principle in the lives of the Saints.

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  Life, Work, Tired

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Moving, Sick

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• I think that 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

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  Inspiration, Thinking, People

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• As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is a Revelator: he is a Sanctifier; he reveals truth, and he cleanses human souls. He is the Spirit of Truth, and his baptism is one of fire; he burns dross and evil out of repentant souls as though by fire. The gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest of all the gifts of God, as pertaining to this life; and those who enjoy that gift here and now, will inherit eternal life hereafter, which is the greatest of all the gifts of God in eternity.

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  Men, Fire, Evil

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• 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.

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  Son, Blood, Way

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

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  Issues, Arguing, Accepted

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

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  Spiritual, Humility, Missionary

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

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  Faith, Rewards, Righteousness

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• Music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the gospel. After men receive the truth, songs of praise to Deity help to sanctify and cleanse their souls.

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  Music, Song, Sweet

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

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  Christ, Immortality, Adam

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• I do not know what we did in the preexistence to merit the wonderful blessings we enjoy. We have come to earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age, the best of all. As we reflect on the plodding course of mankind, from the time of our first parents, we cannot help feeling grateful.

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  Grateful, Blessing, Long

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• Belief, humble belief, is the foundation of all righteousness and the beginning of spiritual progression. It goes before good works, opens the door to an eternal store of heavenly truth, and charts the course to eternal life. . . . Belief is the brilliant beacon that marks the course through the waves and woes of the world to that celestial harbor where rest and safety are found.

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  Life, Spiritual, Humble

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

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  Neutrality, Concerned

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

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  Family, Organization, Important

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• 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

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  Teaching, Church, Doctrine

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• 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.

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  Son, Men, Practice

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

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  Adversity, Loss, Suffering

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

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  Heaven, Preparation, Birth

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

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  Important, Ghost, Companionship

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• The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are: 1. To marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority; and 2. To keep the covenant made in connection with the holy and perfect order of matrimony-thus assuring the obedient persons of an inheritance of exaltation in the celestial kingdom.

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  Jesus, Order, Perfect

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• Yes, President Young did teach that Adam was the father of our spirits, and all the related things that the cultists ascribe to him. This [i.e., Brigham Young's teaching on Adam], however, is not true. He expressed views that are out of harmony with the gospel.

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  Father, Teaching, Views

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

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  House, Earth, Dots

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