I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.
Dallin H. OaksIt is Christ's atonement that makes it possible for us to be forgiven of our sins and His resurrection that gives us the assurance of immortality and the life to come. It is that life to come that orients our views in mortality and reinforces our determination to live the laws of God so that we can qualify for His blessings in immortality.
Dallin H. OaksThe 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.
Dallin H. OaksWe have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.
Dallin H. OaksMy single young friends, we counsel you to channel your associations with the opposite sex into dating patterns that have the potential to mature into marriage, not hanging-out patterns that only have the prospect to mature into team sports like touch football. Marriage is not a group activityโat least not until the children come along in goodly numbers
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