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Dallin H. Oaks
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 12
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Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.
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Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.
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We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.
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I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
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In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.
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Having descended beneath it all, He is perfectly positioned to lift us.
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We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. ... We are all children of a Heavenly Father who has sent us to earth with the invitation to prepare for eternal life. Every choice, every experience, every repentance and reformation prepares us for what is to come.
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Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.
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When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice.
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Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.
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I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.
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We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.
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If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.
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There are people who oppose a federal Constitutional amendment because they think that the law of family should be made by the states. I can see a legitimate argument there. I think it's mistaken, however, because the federal government, through the decisions of life-tenured federal judges, has already taken over that area.
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If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.
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As children of God, knowing of His great love and His ultimate knowledge of what is best for our eternal welfare, we trust in Him. The first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and faith means trust.
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The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like the Apostle Paul-is available for every affliction in mortality.
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Most angelic communications are felt or heard rather than seen.
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Alcohol is the number one addictive drug in our day.
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When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.
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