Dallin H. Oaks Quotes

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

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

Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.

We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadequacies and repair our imperfections.

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

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

Love is the most powerful force in the world.

Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

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

I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

Forgiving is divine. Plead for the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord to forgive wrongs, to overcome faults, and to strengthen relationships.

When we have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we must have trust in him. We must trust him enough that we are content to accept his will, knowing that he knows what is best for us.

We should recognize that the Lord will speak to us through the Spirit in His own time and in His own way.

The church doesn't seek apologies and we don't give them.

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

Our lives of service and sacrifice are the most appropriate expressions of our commitment to serve the Master and our fellowmen.

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.

If our bodies are sick, we seek to heal them. We do not give up. The same thing should be true of our marriages.

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.

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

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

When we understand our relationship to God, we also understand our relationship to one another.

Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago.

I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.

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.

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.

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.

Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality.

To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.

Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.

Testimony is to know and to feel, Conversion is to do and to become.

The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.

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

I expect celibacy of any person that is not married.

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

To avoid all possibility for error is to avoid all possibility for growth.

Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.

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

Service to mankind must ever be the ideal of this great university. It was established in the name of Jesus Christ, who gave his life that all men might live.

Fear not little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail. . .Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.

Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties.

...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.

Establish in the mind of a young person the powerful idea that he or she is a child of God, and you have given self-respect and motivation to move against the problems of life.

We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.