Top 43 Bruce R. McConkie Quotes
#1. Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.
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#2. 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.
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#4. Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.
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#5. Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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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#8. Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness.
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#9. Adam and Eve and all forms of life, both animal and plant, were created in immortality; that is, when first placed on this earth, all forms of life were in a state of immortality. There was no death in the world; death entered after the fall.
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#10. There is no such thing as neutrality where the gospel is concerned.
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#11. 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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#12. 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.
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#13. All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.
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#14. We expect to see the day when temples will dot the earth, each one a house of the Lord.
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#15. What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. 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.
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#19. Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.
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#20. We make our own choices, and then we present the matter to the Lord and get his approving, ratifying seal.
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#21. 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.
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#22. As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality.
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#24. 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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#25. The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the Father and the Son, of revealing the truths of salvation to men on earth, and in due course, of revealing to them, all truth.
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#26. The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.
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#28. Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls.
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#32. There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
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#33. The most important doctrine I can declare, and the most powerful testimony I can bear, is of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. His atonement is the most transcendent event that ever has or ever will occur from Creation's dawn through all the ages of a never-ending eternity.
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#34. 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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#35. We do not know, we cannot tell, no mortal mind can conceive the full import of what Christ did in Gethsemane.
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#36. Our work - is to do the part assigned to us in order to inherit the glory and honor and dignity of which I speak.
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#37. We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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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#40. 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.
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#41. 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
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#42. 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?
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#43. We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name.
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