Bruce R. McConkie

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Bruce R. McConkie

Bruce R. McConkie is described in biographical records as an American LDS Church leader (1915–1985) (1915–1985). The selections gathered here touch on baptism, sacrament, becoming like god. This profile brings the attributed quotations together with their available source information.

FEATURED QUOTE

“All of those called to the ministry…are given the gifts needed to perform the work whereunto they are called. These gifts are always the ones needed for the particular work at hand.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

Biography at a glance

Profile: American LDS Church leader (1915–1985)
Life: 1915–1985
Quotes in this collection: 30

Life and work

Biographical records connect Bruce R. McConkie with University of Utah. This collection includes 30 quotations credited to Bruce R. McConkie. Each quotation page preserves its own citation, when supplied, so readers can follow the passage back to its stated context.

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Quotes by Bruce R. McConkie

30 quotes

“We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to live the law of obedience. We are under covenant to live the law of sacrifice. We are under covenant to live the law of consecration. It is our privilege to consecrate our time, talents, and means to build up his kingdom. We are called upon to sacrifice, in one degree or another, for the furtherance of his work. Obedience is essential to salvation; so, also, is service; and so, also, are consecration and sacrifice.”

"Obedience, Consecration, and Sacrifice", Ensign, May 1975, 50

— Bruce R. McConkie

“True worship goes on seven days a week. Sacraments and vows and covenants of renewal ascend to heaven daily in personal prayer.”

A New Witness for the Articles of Faith

— Bruce R. McConkie

“Men are not born equal. They enter this life with the talents and capacities developed in preexistence…The talent of greatest worth was that of spirituality, for it enables us to hearken to the Holy Spirit and accept that gospel which prepares us for eternal life.”

A New Witness for the Articles of Faith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985), 34

— Bruce R. McConkie

“Work on the projects ahead, and when you have taken one step in the acquiring of faith, it will give you the assurance in your soul that you can go forward and take the next step, and by degrees your power or influence will increase until eventually, in this world or the next, you will say to the Mt. Zerin’s [see Ether 12:30] in your life, “Be thou removed.” You will say to whatever encumbers your course of eternal progress, “Depart,” and it will be so”

"Lord, Increase Our Faith,” BYU Speeches of the Year, October 1967, p. 11

— Bruce R. McConkie

“True religion is not a matter of intellectuality or of worldly prominence or renown, but of spirituality.”

Doctrinal New Testament Commentary (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1971), 2:316

— Bruce R. McConkie

“All of the gifts of the Spirit must be dispensed in an orderly way, according to the needs and conditions of the moment. All the affairs of the earthly kingdom must be administered as changing needs and circumstances require.”

— Bruce R. McConkie