Quick Quotes on the Sacrament
 

 "It is not just that the Book of Mormon teaches us truth, though it indeed does that.  It is not just that the Book of Mormon bears testimony of Christ, though it indeed does that, too.  But there is something more.  There is a power in the book which will begin to flow into your lives the moment you begin a serious study of the book.  You will find greater power to resist temptation.  You will find the power to avoid deception.  You will find the power to stay on the strait and narrow path.  The scriptures are called  "the words of life"  (D&C 84:85), and no where is that more true than it is of the Book of Mormon.  When you begin to hunger and thirst after those words, you will find life in greater and greater abundance." -Ezra Taft Benson, "Ensign", Nov. 1986, pp 4-7
 

"To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of the sacrament is equally serious. The solemn moments of thought while the sacrament is being served have great significance. They are moments of self-examination, introspection, self-discernment – a time to reflect and to resolve."  -Howard W. Hunter

"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)

"It is essential that we renew our covenants by partaking of the sacrament.  When we do this with a sincere heart, with real intent, forsaking our sins, and renewing our commitment to God, the Lord provides a way whereby sins can be forgiven from week to week. Simply eating the bread and drinking the water will not bring that forgiveness. We must prepare and then partake with a broken heart and contrite spirit. The spiritual preparation we make to partake of the sacrament is essential to receiving a remission of our sins." -Vaughn J. Featherstone, Ensign, Sept. 2001
 

"If we approach the sacrament each week in the attitude of actively bringing a personal, specific offering – a humble promise to conquer a weakness that is separating us from the Savior – the sacrament will take on an infinitely richer meaning to our lives. Our relationship to Christ will grow and deepen as we make and keep such promises, and thereby progress in honoring our sacramental covenants."  -W. Cole Durham, Jr. 

"We need to strengthen our sacrament meetings and make them hours of worship in very deed. Cultivate a spirit of reverence, an attitude in which people come into the chapel and are quiet and reverent and thoughtful. There is too much noise. We are a social people, but I wish we would not keep it up so loudly in the chapel." -Gordon B. Hinckley, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, regional conference, 27 Apr. 1996
 

"I need the sacrament. I need to renew my covenant every week. I need the blessing that comes with and through it. I know that what I am talking about is true. I bear witness to  you that I know that the Lord lives. I know that He has made this sacrifice and this atonement. He has given me a foretaste of these things.... I know that He lives, and I know that through Him men must find their salvation, and that we cannot ignore this blessed offering that He has given us as the means of our spiritual growth to prepare us to come to Him and be justified.... Go to the sacrament table. Ah, that is a blessed privilege that I now rejoice in, and I would be ashamed, I know,... to stand in His presence and try to offer any apology or any excuse for not having kept His commandments and honored Him by bearing witness, before the Father and before men, that I believe in Him, and that I take upon me His blessed name, and that I live by and through Him spiritually."  -Melvin J. Ballard

"What should we do before partaking of this sacrament? We should look into our souls and see whether we have any unforgiveness there toward any of our fellow creatures, especially toward any of the household of faith. Have you any bitterness in your heart toward your brother or your sister, or any of mankind? If you have, remove that bitterness and repent of the weakness by which that bitterness has found a resting place within you, and remove it from your heart. Harbor it not in your spirit; for it is evil. It corrupts us to allow the spirit of hatred or animosity to find a resting-place in our souls. Therefore we should not partake of this sacrament with such feelings in our souls. We should forgive those who trespass against us. We should make peace with our brother and with our sister and with all mankind, and establish peace in our hearts, so that when we come to the house of God to partake of the sacrament we may do it with clean hands and pure hearts before the Lord." -Joseph F. Smith, July 16, 1893, "Collected Discourses, 1987-1992," 5 vols., Stuy, Brian H., ed., Burbank, California, and Woodland Hills, Utah: B.H.S. Publishing.