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Dallin H. Oaks Biography

Dallin Harris Oaks (born August 12, 1932) is an American jurist, educator, and religious leader who serves as the First Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was called as a member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1984. Currently, he is the second most senior apostle by years of service and is the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. M. Russell Ballard serves as acting president due to Oaks serving in the First Presidency.

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The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of his daughters, because only to his daughters has God given the power to be a creator of bodies so that God’s design and the great plan might meet fruition.

Companionship, Daughter, Design, Meet, Plan, Son

When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.

Vision, Desire, Increase, Enormously, Power

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.

Church, Done, Eligible, Members, Person

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.

Beliefs, Errors, Middle, Practice, Stand, War

We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.

Choose, Christ, Jesus, Lord, Order, Things

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

Spiritual, Needs, Wise Words, Satisfy, Enough

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.

Destiny, Jesus, Justice, Power, Teaching, Temptation

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.

Church, Membership, Resist, Temptation

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.

Father, God, Ideas, Modern, Moral, Real

Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.

Assist, Child, Children, Given, Helping Others, Opportunity

Don't be dumb. (don't get a tattoo)

Dumb, Tattoo

if we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.

Choose, Destination, Oaks, Road, Wrong, Wrong Road

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.

Elder, Lds, Lord, Reality, Spiritual, Usefulness

The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.

Jesus, Light, World, Darkened, Hope

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

Adversities, Adversity, Affluence, Hard Work, Poverty, Relative

Our spirits. . . require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.

Body, Hurtful, Lives, Malnutrition, Require, Spiritual

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.

Adversary, Caused, Children, Compassion, Parent, Positions

Young people, if you honor your fathers, you will love them, respect them, confide in them, be considerate of them, express appreciation for them, and demonstrate all of these things by following their counsel in righteousness and by obeying the commandments of God.

Appreciation, Demonstrate, Father, God, Obeying, People

The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.

Blessing, Giving, Desire, Benefit, Sharing, Affirms

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

Children, Parents, Powerful, Teaching

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