Top 40 Bruce R. McConkie Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

5. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

7. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

8. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

9. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

10. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

11. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

13. “God stands revealed or remains forever unknown.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

14. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

15. “Salvation is a family affair.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

17. “To worship the Lord is to stand valiantly in the cause of truth and righteousness, to let our influence for good be felt in civic, cultural, educational, and governmental fields, and to support those laws and principles which further the Lord’s interests on earth.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

21. “Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

22. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

23. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

24. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

25. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

31. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

32. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

33. “I am one of his witnesses, and in a coming day I shall feel the nail marks in his hands and in his feet and shall wet his feet with my tears. But I shall not know any better 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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

34. “To fill the full measure and purpose of our mortal probation, we must have patience. This mortal existence is the Lord’s sifting sphere, the time when we are subject to trials, testing, and tribulations. Future rewards will be based on our patient endurance of all things.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

35. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

36. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

38. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

39. “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?”

— Bruce R. McConkie

40. “Faithful persons are expected to seek the gifts of the Spirit with all their hearts.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

41. “All who believe and obey the glorious gospel of God, all who are true and faithful and overcome the world, all who suffer for Christ and his word, all who are chastened and scourged in the Cause of him whose we are – all shall become as their Maker and sit with him on his throne and reign with him forever in everlasting glory.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

43. “Now, the atonement of Christ is the most basic and fundamental doctrine of the gospel, and it is the least understood of all our revealed truths. Many of us have a superficial knowledge and rely upon the Lord and his goodness to see us through the trials and perils of life. But if we are to have faith like Enoch and Elijah we must believe what they believed, know what they knew, and live as they lived.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

44. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

45. “If the sole source of one’s knowledge or assurance of the truth of the Lord’s work comes from reason, or logic, or persuasive argument,... it is not a testimony of the gospel.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

46. “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.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

47. “As we read, ponder, and pray, there will come into our minds a view of the three gardens of God – the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden of the Empty Tomb where Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene.”

— Bruce R. McConkie