Dallin H. Oaks Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to change. “Repent” is its most frequent message, and repenting means giving up all of our practices-perso nal, family, ethnic, and national-that are contrary to the commandments of God. The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Giving Up, Mean

• Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God must come to this earth for a glorious purpose, and that individual identity began long before conception and will continue for all the eternities to come. We rely on the prophets of God who have told us that while there may be 'rare' exceptions, 'the practice of elective abortion is fundamentally contrary to the Lord's injunction, 'Thou shalt not . . . kill, nor do anything like unto it'

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Attitude, Practice

• We need to remember the purpose of our service to one another. If it were only to accomplish some part of His work, God could dispatch 'legions of angels.' . . . But that would not achieve the purpose of the service He has prescribed. We serve God and our fellowmen in order to become the kind of children who can return to live with our heavenly parents.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Angel, Order

  "I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go" by Dallin H. Oaks, www.lds.org. October 2002.

• The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Citizens, Purpose, Common

• When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life... We are meant to learn and grow through opposition, through meeting our challenges, and through teaching others to do the same... the Lord will not only consecrate our afflictions for our gain, but He will use them to bless the lives of countless others.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Teaching, Adversity, Giving

• In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Real, Heart, Commitment

• When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Adversity, Giving, Purpose

• The ultimate defining fact for all of us is that we are children of Heavenly Parents, born on this earth for a purpose, and born with a divine destiny.

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  Children, Destiny, Parent

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

• The time has come in our society when I see great wisdom and purpose in a United States Constitutional amendment declaring that marriage is between a man and a woman. There is nothing in that proposed amendment that requires a criminal prosecution or that directs the attorneys general to go out and round people up, but it declares a principle and it also creates a defensive barrier against those who would alter that traditional definition of marriage.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Men, People, Principles

  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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