Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. Dallin H. Oaks More Quotes by Dallin H. Oaks More Quotes From Dallin H. Oaks Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad. Dallin H. Oaks bad-attitude praying attitude Become what our Heavenly Father desires you to become. Dallin H. Oaks heavenly desire father Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue. Dallin H. Oaks practice blessing father 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 choices father children The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of His daughters. Dallin H. Oaks companionship daughter son The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration. Dallin H. Oaks deterioration profanity our-society The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor. Dallin H. Oaks wealth favors absence We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it. Dallin H. Oaks testimony gains The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity. Dallin H. Oaks mother heaven children If you are trying to live with and maintain ascendancy over same-gender attractions, the best way to do that is to have groups that define their members in terms other than same-gender attractions. Dallin H. Oaks groups trying way Everyone has some challenges they have to struggle with. Dallin H. Oaks struggle challenges The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage that would be brought on by same-gender marriage. Dallin H. Oaks patient grace would-be 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 principles men people 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 individual-choice law two If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia. Dallin H. Oaks want people needs There are certain indicia of marriage - certain legal and social consequences and certain legitimacy - which if given to some relationship other than marriage between a man and a woman tend to degrade if not destroy the institution that's been honored over so many thousands of years. Dallin H. Oaks social men years Let's not forget that for thousands of years the institution of marriage has been between a man and a woman. Until quite recently, in a limited number of countries, there has been no such thing as a marriage between persons of the same gender. Suddenly we are faced with the claim that thousands of years of human experience should be set aside because we should not discriminate in relation to the institution of marriage. When that claim is made, the burden of proving that this step will not undo the wisdom and stability of millennia of experience lies on those who would make the change. Dallin H. Oaks men country lying The Parliament in Canada and the Congress in Washington do not have the authority to revoke the commandments of God, or to modify or amend them in any way. Dallin H. Oaks canada authority way 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 Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the background, and feel a great attraction for a daughter of God and therefore desire to enter marriage and have children and enjoy the blessings of eternity - that's a situation when marriage would be appropriate. Dallin H. Oaks daughter blessing children
