MORMONISM: SAVED BY GRACE OR WORKS?

Citation list:

1. “​​The Book of Mormon puts us right. It teaches that ‘salvation doth not come by the law..’ (Mosiah
13:28); that is, salvation does not come by keeping the commandments... ‘By the law no flesh is
justified.’ (2 Nephi 2:5.).. Man cannot earn his own salvation.. The commandments, ordinances, and
covenants of the gospel are not a list of deposits required to be made in some heavenly account.”
-President Dallin H. Oaks
(https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1988/10/what-think-ye-of-christ?lang=en
g&
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2000/10/the-challenge-to-become?lang=
eng)
2. “Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of
God. [We cannot] trade our good works for salvation.” -Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
(https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2015/04/the-gift-of-grace?lang=eng)
3. “No matter how hard we work, no matter how much we obey, no matter how many good things we do
in this life.. we cannot earn the kingdom of God.. no matter what we do. Unfortunately, there are some
within the Church who have become so preoccupied with performing good works that they forget that
those works--as good as they may be--are hollow..” -President M. Russell Ballard
(https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1998/06/building-bridges-of-understanding?lang=eng
)
4. “Now, there is a true doctrine of salvation by grace—a salvation by grace alone and without works, as
the scriptures say.. Does salvation come by grace without works? It surely does, without any question in
all its parts, types, kinds, and degrees. We are saved by grace, without works; it is a gift of God. How
else could it come? ... No works on our part were required… In his goodness and grace—and this
above all—he gave his Only Begotten Son to ransom man and all life from the temporal and spiritual
death brought into the world by the Fall of Adam. He sent his Son to redeem mankind, to atone for the
sins of the world, ‘to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man’. And again all this comes to
us as a free gift and without works.. Will all our good works save us? Will we be rewarded for all our
righteousness? Most assuredly we will not. We are not saved by works.. no matter how good; we are
saved because God sent his Son to shed his blood in Gethsemane and on Calvary that all through him
might ransomed be. We are saved by the blood of Christ.” -Elder Bruce R. McConkie
(https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-r-mcconkie/think-ye-salvation-grace/)
5. “Our only hope for true perfection is in receiving it as a gift from heaven–we can’t ‘earn’ it.” -Elder
Jefferey R. Holland
(https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2017/10/be-ye-therefore-perfect-eventu
ally?lang=eng)