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Our lives of service and sacrifice are the most appropriate expressions of our commitment to serve the Master and our fellowmen.

Dallin H. Oaks

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Dallin H. Oaks
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 12
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Every teaching position, every missionary position can be held by single people. We welcome to that kind of service people who are struggling with any kind of temptation when the struggle is a good struggle and they are living so as to be appropriate teachers, or missionaries, or whatever the calling may be.
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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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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.
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Our society is not held together primarily by law and its enforcement but most importantly by those who voluntarily obey the unenforceable because of their internalized norms of righteous or correct behavior. Religious belief in right and wrong is a vital influence to produce such voluntary compliance by a large number of our citizens.
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It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.
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Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity.” We cannot recycle or save the time allotted to us each day. With time, we have only one opportunity for choice, and then it is gone forever.
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The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.
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If you are trying to live with and maintain ascendancy over same-gender attractions, the best way to do that is to have groups that define their members in terms other than same-gender attractions.
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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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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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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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It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.
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If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.
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Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.
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I just didn’t spend enough time with my job.
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...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.
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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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Love is the most powerful force in the world.
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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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Having descended beneath it all, He is perfectly positioned to lift us.
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