Dallin H. Oaks Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Opportunity, Arrows, Priorities

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• The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.

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  Children, Powerful, Teaching

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• 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.

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  Teacher, True Friend, Choices

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• Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we look at other people. Are we inclined to judge an eternal soul by the appearance of an earthly body? Do we see the beautiful soul of a brother or sister or do we only see that person's earthly tabernacle? Bodies can be distorted by handicap, twisted by injury or worn by age. But if we can learn to see the inner man and woman, we will be seeing as God sees and loving as He loves.

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  Beautiful, Brother, Attitude

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• Over past years we have seen unrelenting pressure from advocates of homosexuality to accept as normal what is not normal, and to characterize those who disagree as narrow-minded, bigoted and unreasonable. Such advocates are quick to demand freedom of speech and thought for themselves, but equally quick to criticize those with a different view and, if possible, to silence them by applying labels like "homophobic."

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  Past, Views, Years

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• I do not accept the fact that conditions that prevent people from attaining their eternal destiny were born into them without any ability to control. That is contrary to the Plan of Salvation, and it is contrary to the justice and mercy of God. It's contrary to the whole teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which expresses the truth that by or through the power and mercy of Jesus Christ we will have the strength to do all things. That includes resisting temptation. That includes dealing with things that we're born with, including disfigurements, or mental or physical incapacities.

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  Jesus, Teaching, Destiny

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• Our society is not held together primarily by law and its enforcement but most importantly by those who voluntarily obey the unenforceable because of their internalized norms of righteous or correct behavior. Religious belief in right and wrong is a vital influence to produce such voluntary compliance by a large number of our citizens.

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  Religious, Law, Numbers

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• The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham Young, who expressed his profound negative feelings when he first had this principle revealed to him. The Mormons of the 19th century who practiced plural marriage, male and female, did so because they felt it was a duty put upon them by God.

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  Practice, Profound, Feelings

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• My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.

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  Father, Real, Ideas

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• We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for truth, even while we practice tolerance and respect for beliefs and ideas different from our own and for the people who hold them.

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  War, Errors, Practice

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• Having descended beneath it all, He is perfectly positioned to lift us.

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  Lifts

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• I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

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  Hard Work, Adversity, Poverty

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

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  Adversity, Giving, Purpose

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• Healing blessings come in many ways, each suited to our individual needs, as known to Him who loves us best. Sometimes a ‘healing’ cures our illness or lifts our burden. But sometimes we are ‘healed’ by being given strength or understanding or patience to bear the burdens placed upon us.

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  Healing, Blessing, Lds

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• Faith is developed in a setting where we cannot see ahead.

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  Settings, Setting

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• Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable.

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  Spiritual, Should, Disagree

  "Speeches in Spanish, Cantonese make history at Mormon conference: 'It was awesome'", www.foxnews.com. October 05, 2014.

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• Become what our Heavenly Father desires you to become.

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  Father, Desire, Heavenly

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• Homosexual feelings are controllable. Perhaps there is an inclination or susceptibility to such feelings that is a reality for some and not a reality for others. But out of such susceptibilities come feelings, and feelings are controllable. If we cater to the feelings, they increase the power of the temptation. If we yield to the temptation, we have committed sinful behavior. That pattern is the same for a person that covets someone else's property and has a strong temptation to steal. It's the same for a person that develops a taste for alcohol.

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  Strong, Reality, Yield

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• As children of God, knowing of His great love and His ultimate knowledge of what is best for our eternal welfare, we trust in Him. The first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and faith means trust.

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  Jesus, Children, Mean

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• Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime.

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  Littles, Lifetime, Given

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• I expect celibacy of any person that is not married.

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  Married, Celibacy, Persons

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• We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

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  Reality, Numbers, Reason

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• 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

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• Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it at all costs. Direct your thoughts in wholesome paths. Remember your covenants and be faithful in temple attendance.

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  Temptation, Faithful, Degrees

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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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  Commitment, Compromise, Meek

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