20+ LDS Quotes On Ordinances

“Baptism is a once-in-a-lifetime ordinance. We are baptized on one occasion only—for the remission of our sins, for entrance into the earthly church, and for future admission into the kingdom of heaven.”

Bruce R. McConkie | A New Witness for the Articles of Faith

Topics: Baptism, Ordinances

“The Latter-day Saints are a covenant people. From the day of baptism through the spiritual milestones of our lives, we make promises with God and He makes promises with us. He always keeps His promises offered through His authorized servants, but it is the crucial test of our lives to see if we will make and keep our covenants with Him.”

Elder Henry B. Eyring | “Witnesses for God,” Ensign, November 1996, p. 30

Topics: Baptism, Covenants, Ordinances

“As to the question of authority, nearly everything depends upon it. No ordinance can be performed to the acceptance of God without divine authority. No matter how fervently men may believe or pray, unless they are endowed with divine authority they can only act in their own name, and not legally nor acceptably in the name of Jesus Christ, in whose name all these things must be done.”

Joseph Fielding Smith | Gospel Doctrine, 102.

Topics: Covenants, Ordinances, Priesthood

“We go to the temple to make covenants, but we go home to keep the covenants that we have made. The home is the testing ground. The home is the place where we learn to be more Christlike. The home is the place where we learn to overcome selfishness and give ourselves in service to others.”

J. Ballard Washburn | Ensign, May 1995, p. 12

Topics: Covenants, Ordinances, Service, Temples

“All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people is strict obedience to our own covenants that we have made with our God, and that is to serve him with an undivided heart.”

Brigham Young | Journal of Discourses, 18:246

Topics: Covenants, Obedience, Ordinances

“He [Joseph Smith] conducted us through with all the ordinances he rejoiced very much, and [said], now if they kill me you have got all the keys, and all the ordinances and you can confer them upon others, and the hosts of Satan will not be able to tear down the kingdom.”

Orson Hyde | Times and Seasons, September 15, 1844, 651

Topics: Joseph Smith, Ordinances, Priesthood, Prophets

“No more sacred ordinance has been given to us by the Lord than the administration of the Sacrament.”

David O. McKay | Conference Report, October 1956, 88.

Topics: Ordinances, Sacrament

[A sacrament is] “a pledge and promise on man’s part to forsake personal sins, knowing that if he does so he will be blessed by the Lord. When the saints partake of the ordinance of the sacrament, they promise not simply to keep the commandments in general, but also to serve and conform and obey where they as individuals have fallen short in the past. Every man’s sacraments are thus his own; he alone knows his failures and sins, and he alone must overcome the world and the flesh so that he can have fellowship with the saints.”

Bruce R. McConkie | A New Witness for the Articles of Faith

Topics: Commandments, Ordinances, Sacrament, Sin

The ordinances of baptism by immersion, the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, and the sacrament are not isolated and discrete events; rather, they are elements in an interrelated and additive pattern of redemptive progress. Each successive ordinance elevates and enlarges our spiritual purpose, desire, and performance. The Father’s plan, the Savior’s Atonement, and the ordinances of the gospel provide the grace we need to press forward and progress line upon line and precept upon precept toward our eternal destiny.

Elder David A. Bednar | Always Retain a Remission of Your Sins - April 2016

Topics: Baptism, Holy Ghost, Ordinances, Sacrament

“the sacrament of the Lord’s supper is an ordinance of salvation in which all the faithful must participate if they are to live and reign with him.”

Bruce R. McConkie | The Promised Messiah

Topics: Ordinances, Sacrament, Salvation