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Dallin H. Oaks
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 12
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Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.
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Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.
Dallin H. Oaks
We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.
Dallin H. Oaks
Our spirits...require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.
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Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue.
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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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Our Savior gave Himself in unselfish service. He taught that each of us should follow Him by denying ourselves of selfish interests in order to serve others.
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Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad.
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Forgiving is divine. Plead for the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord to forgive wrongs, to overcome faults, and to strengthen relationships.
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We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it.
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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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Love is the most powerful force in the world.
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Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.
Dallin H. Oaks
When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice.
Dallin H. Oaks
We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadequacies and repair our imperfections.
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We feel great compassion for parents whose love and protective instincts for their challenged children have moved them to some positions that are adversary to the Church. I hope the Lord will be merciful to parents whose love for their children has caused them to get into such traps.
Dallin H. Oaks
President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives.
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The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.
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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.
Dallin H. Oaks
Having descended beneath it all, He is perfectly positioned to lift us.
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