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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.

Dallin H. Oaks

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Dallin H. Oaks
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 12
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Young people, if you honor your fathers, you will love them, respect them, confide in them, be considerate of them, express appreciation for them, and demonstrate all of these things by following their counsel in righteousness and by obeying the commandments of God.
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Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.
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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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There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question.
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Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable.
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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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Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.
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The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity.
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Love is the most powerful force in the world.
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We should recognize that the Lord will speak to us through the Spirit in His own time and in His own way.
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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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Having descended beneath it all, He is perfectly positioned to lift us.
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Most angelic communications are felt or heard rather than seen.
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If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.
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We urge persons with same-gender attractions to control those and to refrain from acting upon them, which is a sin, just as we urge persons with heterosexual attractions to refrain from acting upon them until they have the opportunity for a marriage recognized by God as well as by the law of the land. That is the way to happiness and eternal life.
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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.
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Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship. This includes compulsory duties like military service and the numerous voluntary actions they must take if they are to preserve the principle of limited government through citizen self-reliance.
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I testify of our Savior, Jesus Christ, whose teachings and example we seek to follow. He invites all of us who are heavy laden to come unto Him, to learn of Him, to follow Him, and thus to find rest to our souls.
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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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