"When you receive an ordinance, whether it be baptism, the sacrament, an ordination or setting apart, an endowment or a sealing, you receive an obligation.  Thereafter, you are under covenant not to steal, nor to lie, nor to profane, nor take the name of the Lord in vain.  You are obligated to maintain the moral standard...  You have the responsibility to support every principle of the gospel and the servants of the Lord has ordained to administer them.  President Joseph Fielding Smith said this: 'Each ordinance and requirement given to man for the purpose of bringing to pass his salvation and exaltation is a covenant' (DS / 1:152)."  -Boyd K. Packer, February 3, 1980)

"Let me give you the definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the House of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens, pertaining to the Holy Priesthood, and gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell."  - Prophets Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 2, p. 31

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