Dallin H. Oaks Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• The church doesn't seek apologies and we don't give them.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Apology, Giving, Church

• In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison for preaching from the pulpit that homosexual behavior is sinful. Given these trends, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must take a stand on doctrine and principle. This is more than a social issue - ultimately it may be a test of our most basic religious freedoms to teach what we know our Father in Heaven wants us to teach.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Country, Religious, Jesus

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

• 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.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Compassion, Parent

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

• A person with homosexual inclinations, where they're kept under control, or, if yielded to are appropriately repented of, is eligible to do anything in the Church that can be done by any member of the Church who is single.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Church, Done, Members

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

• It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Leader, Criticism, Church

  Interview with Helen Whitney, www.mormonnewsroom.org. July 20, 2007.

• I encourage you to seek the help of the Savior to resist temptation and to refrain from behavior that would cause you to have to repent or to have your Church membership called into question.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Temptation, Church, Membership

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

• My duty as a member of the Council of the Twelve is to protect what is most unique about the LDS church, namely the authority of priesthood, testimony regarding the restoration of the gospel, and the divine mission of the Savior. Everything may be sacrificed in order to maintain the integrity of those essential facts. Thus, if Mormon Enigma reveals information that is detrimental to the reputation of Joseph Smith, then it is necessary to try to limit its influence and that of its authors.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Integrity, Unique, Order

• As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we say anything bad about the leaders of the Church, whether true or false, we tend to impair their influence and their usefulness and are thus working against the Lord and his cause.' ... The Holy Ghost will not guide or confirm criticism of the Lord's anointed, or of Church leaders, local or general. This reality should be part of the spiritual evaluation that LDS readers and viewers apply to those things written about our history and those who made it.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Reality, Lds

• Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Church, Covenant

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