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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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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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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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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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Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad.
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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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