Behavior Quotes - Page 36

• 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.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Unique, Hands, Feelings

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• I think it's important for you to understand that homosexuality is not a noun that describes a condition. It's an adjective that describes feelings or behavior.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Thinking, Feelings, Important

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• 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

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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.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Strong, Reality, Yield

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• Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Feelings, Lines, Sin

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• We need to lay hold on the feelings and try to control them to keep us from getting into a circumstance that leads to sinful behavior.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Feelings, Trying, Needs

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• The Atonement of Jesus Christ is powerful enough to reach out and cleanse you if you are repentant and give up your sinful behavior, but I urge you not to embark on that path because repentance is not easy.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Giving Up, Powerful

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• We should remember that none of us is perfect and none of us has children whose behavior is entirely in accord with exactly what we would have them do in all circumstances.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Perfect, Remember

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• 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

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• One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that therefore acting in accordance with that inclination is inevitable. That's contrary to our very nature as the Lord has revealed to us. We do have the power to control our behavior.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Thinking, Age, Acting

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• Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.

  Lance B. Wickman

  What Matters, Important, Facts

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• Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political definition does not change that reality.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Reality, Political, Doe

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• One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.

  Kenny Chesney

  Confrontation, Deals, Humans

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• The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

  Robert H. Frank

  Links, Outcomes, Individual

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• A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.

  Russell Hornsby

  People, Giving, Personality

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• Galen's observations reflect one of the distinctive features of early Christianity. Roman-era religion was mainly about ritual actions vis-à-vis the gods, and there was little to do with ordering behavior otherwise.

  Larry Hurtado

  Littles, Eras, Action

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• Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

  Larry Hurtado

  Philosophical, Live Your Life, Everyday

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• In light of Trump's irresponsible behavior, even Putin may decide that it was time to recalculate Russian interests. This could happen quite quickly if Trump goes ahead and wrecks one of the few potentially stabilizing developments in the Middle East during the last several years. Similarly, if Israel joins NATO, this might be more than Putin is willing to swallow.

  Richard A. Falk

  Light, Israel, Years

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• Any move by Israel to end the conflict with the Palestinians by unilateral moves - such as annexing the West Bank, delinking Gaza and declaring that there be no further diplomatic process - will lead to strong regional and global reactions, as well as intensify efforts at the UN and in civil society to brand Israel as an outlaw state dangerous to regional and world peace and guilty of criminal behavior.

  Richard A. Falk

  Strong, Moving, Israel

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• With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Israel, Practice, Ducks

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• [Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.

  Mark Shields

  Winning, Ideas, Chicago

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• It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those last days were filled with completely irrational ideas and behaviors that could not be explained in any way outside of a mass collapse of reason.

  David Horowitz

  Reading, Past, Civilization

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• Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last days of past civilizations were filled with idiotic, irrational ideas and behaviors that couldn't be explained by reason.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Past, Civilization, Ideas

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• There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant percentages, not on some absolute value. That's one of the reasons behavioral scientists have to be really good statisticians.

  John Medina

  Lying, Effort, Research

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• The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

  John Medina

  Distance, Nuclear Families, Genes

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