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Everyone has some challenges they have to struggle with.

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Dallin H. Oaks
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 12
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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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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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It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.
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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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The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.
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Love is the most powerful force in the world.
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Our spirits...require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.
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Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue.
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The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.
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Having descended beneath it all, He is perfectly positioned to lift us.
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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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I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.
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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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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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It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.
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We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it.
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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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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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The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.
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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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