"Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course." -Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "A Matter of a Few Degrees", Ensign, May 2008, 57–60

"If you ponder the scriptures and begin to do what you covenanted with God to do, I can promise you that you will feel more love for God and more of His love for you.  And with that, your prayers will come from the heart, full of thanks and of pleading.  You will feel a greater dependence on God.  You will find the courage and the determination to act in His service, without fear and with peace in your heart.  You will pray always.  And you will not forget Him, no matter what the future brings." -Henry B. Eyring, "Prayer," General Conference, October 2001;  Ensign, November 2001, p. 17

 "We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations. We need strong Christians who can make important things happen by their faith and who can defend the truth of Jesus Christ against moral relativism and militant atheism.  What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him."  -D. Todd Christofferson, "The Power of Covenants", Ensign, May 2009, 19–23.

"Giving careful attention to covenant making is critical to our eternal salvation. Covenants are agreements we make with our Heavenly Father in which we commit our hearts, minds, and behavior to keeping the commandments defined by the Lord. As we are faithful in keeping our agreement, He covenants, or promises, to bless us, ultimately with all that He has."  -Paul E. Koelliker, "Gospel Covenants Bring Promised Blessings," Ensign, Nov. 2005, 94

Being fully taught in the ways of God also means we must make and keep necessary ordinances and sacred covenants.   President Boyd K. Packer has said:  "Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into [God's] presence.  To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime.  To keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality" (Ensign, May 1987, 24). -Mary Ellen Smoot - BYU Women's Conference,  Spring 1998

"There are those hours on Sunday and in a family home evening on Monday the opportunity to combine genuine caring, teaching the gospel, and the bearing of testimony.  Across the earth there are families who love and understand their covenants who do that.  There is a caution I would give and a promise I would offer about such choices of how to use family time.  For a person not yet a member of the Church, to fail to provide such moments of love and faith is simply a lost opportunity.  But for those under covenant, it is much more.  There are few places where it can matter more for those for whom we are accountable.  For members of the church, my caution is that to neglect those opportunities is a choice not to keep sacred covenants.  Because God always honors covenants, I can make a promise to those who in faith keep the covenant to create experiences of giving love and bearing testimony with their families.  They will reap a harvest of hearts touched, faith in Jesus Christ exercised unto repentance, and the power to keep covenants strengthened.  I bear solemn testimony that this is the true Church of Jesus Christ, in which the ordinances and the covenants are offered, which if accepted and honored produce peace in this life and assure us eternal life in the world to come." -Elder Henry B. Eyring,  Ensign, Nov. 1998 p. 30

"When we enter into the covenant of the gospel and become one with Christ, we create a new corporate entity, a partnership, that is immediately profitable and immediately justified through the infinite merits of the Savior (the only really profitable enterprise).  As long as we don't dissolve the partnership we are justified by his merits in that unique relationship.  As an individual, I may have no hope, but as a junior partner in a joint venture with Christ, I have every assurance of success." -Stephen E. Robinson - "Believing Christ" p 28-29.

“As each of us was baptized, we entered into a solemn covenant with our Heavenly Father. A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants. You and I do not decide the nature or elements of a covenant. Rather, exercising our moral agency, we accept the terms and requirements of a covenant as our Eternal Father has established them” (pp. 28–29). David A. Bednar, “That We May Always Have His Spirit to Be with Us,”  Ensign and Liahona, May 2006, 28–31.

"I speak of the importance of keeping covenants because they protect us in a world that is drifting from time-honored values that bring joy and happiness.  In the future this loosening of moral fiber may even increase. The basic decency of society is decreasing.  In the future our people, particularly our children and grandchildren, can expect to be bombarded more and more by the evils of Sodom and Gomorrah."  -President James E. Faust, Gen. Conf., April, 1998