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Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.

Dallin H. Oaks

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Dallin H. Oaks
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 12
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There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question.
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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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Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime.
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