Quote by Marion G. Romney of the First Presidency. ““The
basic principle and the justification for the law of consecration ‘is that
everything we have belongs to the Lord therefore, the Lord may call upon us for
any and all of the property which we have, because it belongs to Him. …
(“Living the Principles of the Law of Consecration,” Ensign, Feb. 1979, 3).
Quote by President Joseph Fielding Smith. “the United Order,
or law of consecration, does not contemplate that the idler shall eat the bread
of the laborer. While all shall share in common and none shall possess above
another, yet all must give service and labor for the benefit of all” (Church
History and Modern Revelation, 2 vols. 1953, 1:205).
