Quotes from Dallin H. Oaks

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.

I just didn't spend enough time with my job.

Love is the most powerful force in the world.

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.

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.

The most effective missionsries always act out of love

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

If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.

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.

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

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.

Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men.

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

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

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

Most angelic communications are felt or heard rather than seen.

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

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

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

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

In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to KNOW something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to BECOME something...The gospel of Jesus Christ is the plan by which we can become what children of god are supposed to become...Charity is something one becomes.

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

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.

Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another's differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one's standards or one's opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.