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Love is the most powerful force in the world.

Dallin H. Oaks

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Dallin H. Oaks
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 12
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We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for truth, even while we practice tolerance and respect for beliefs and ideas different from our own and for the people who hold them.
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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 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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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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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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Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church.
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Plan specifically so you can implement flexibly.
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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.
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Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral
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The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.
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The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.
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We need to lay hold on the feelings and try to control them to keep us from getting into a circumstance that leads to sinful behavior.
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The Parliament in Canada and the Congress in Washington do not have the authority to revoke the commandments of God, or to modify or amend them in any way.
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If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.
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It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.
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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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...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.
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The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of His daughters.
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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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Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.
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