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 More Quotes by Dallin H. Oaks More Quotes From Dallin H. Oaks Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased. Dallin H. Oaks effort joy father To avoid all possibility for error is to avoid all possibility for growth. Dallin H. Oaks possibility errors growth 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 membership church temptation Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties. Dallin H. Oaks office keys exercise The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong. Dallin H. Oaks commandments contention wells The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless. Producers are promoting new types of alcoholic beverages as competitors in the huge soft-drink market. Grocery and convenience stores and gas stations stock alcoholic beverages side by side with soda pop. Can Christians who are involved in this commerce be indifferent to the physical and moral effects of the alcohol from which they are making their profits? Dallin H. Oaks wine christian beer If you wish to marry well, inquire well. Dallin H. Oaks wells oaks wish Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality Dallin H. Oaks priorities opposites giving Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church. Dallin H. Oaks covenant church jesus My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing. Dallin H. Oaks performing taught reason There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question. Dallin H. Oaks wrong-answers answers 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. Dallin H. Oaks religious law numbers The people are the source of governmental power. Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to the people, and the people consented to a constitution that delegated certain powers to the government... The sovereign power is in the people. Dallin H. Oaks government religious people The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly love and care for one another. We sense the importance of these relationships when we realize that our greatest expressions of joy or pain in mortality come from the members of our families Dallin H. Oaks echoes pain expression Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to educate for eternity, Eugene England writes: Teaching or learning - with the Spirit of God simply means (though it is not simple) that we are doing so with an eye single to eternal, not worldly, values, with an eye single to lasting development of the mind and spirit and to useful service to others, especially to aid in their lasting development of mind and spirit. Dallin H. Oaks learning teaching writing In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God. Dallin H. Oaks acquisition alternatives mean It is not enough that we are under call or even that we are going in the right direction. The timing must be right. Dallin H. Oaks right-direction timing enough Alcohol is the number one addictive drug in our day. Dallin H. Oaks drug alcohol numbers We must change all elements of our behavior that are in conflict with gospel... covenants. Dallin H. Oaks covenant conflict elements Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John. Dallin H. Oaks divinity degrees religion
