Dallin H. Oaks Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• ...When a choice will make a real difference in our lives—obvious or not—and when we are living in tune with the Spirit and seeking his guidance, we can be sure we will receive the guidance we need to attain our goal.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Real, Differences, Goal

• Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Priorities In Life, Choices, Desire

  "Desire". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. April 2011.

• Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Differences, Diversity, Choices

• 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.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Opportunity, Arrows, Priorities

• We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Agency, Choices, Characteristics

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

• Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Teacher, True Friend, Choices

• Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Law, Individual Choice, Two

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

• 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.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Father, Choices

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