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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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Dallin H. Oaks
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 12
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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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Everyone has some challenges they have to struggle with.
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In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.
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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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A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.
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And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making and keeping sacred covenants, to have the blessings of eternal life.
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The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin to have inclinations that if yielded to would produce behavior that would be a transgression. The sin is in yielding to temptation. Temptation is not unique. Even the Savior was tempted.
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When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice.
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