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Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime.

Dallin H. Oaks

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Dallin H. Oaks
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 12
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Everyone has some challenges they have to struggle with.
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If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.
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God loves all of His children. He has provided a plan for His children to enjoy the choicest blessings that He has to offer in eternity. Those choicest blessings are associated with marriage between a man and a woman by appropriate priesthood authority to bring together a family unit for creation and happiness in this life and in the life to come.
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The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage that would be brought on by same-gender marriage.
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When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves the Spirit of the Lord is grieved and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man
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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 earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.
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There are people who oppose a federal Constitutional amendment because they think that the law of family should be made by the states. I can see a legitimate argument there. I think it's mistaken, however, because the federal government, through the decisions of life-tenured federal judges, has already taken over that area.
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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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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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It is not enough that we are under call or even that we are going in the right direction. The timing must be right.
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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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Most angelic communications are felt or heard rather than seen.
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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.
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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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We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. ... We are all children of a Heavenly Father who has sent us to earth with the invitation to prepare for eternal life. Every choice, every experience, every repentance and reformation prepares us for what is to come.
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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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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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We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.
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