Top 100 Quotes About Oaks
#1. The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.
Dallin H. Oaks
#2. In the hills giant oaks
Fall upon their knees
You can touch parts
You have no right to
Kay Ryan
#3. High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars ... high over the stars sweep the angels ...
Heinrich Heine
#4. Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.
Dallin H. Oaks
#5. Our lives of service and sacrifice are the most appropriate expressions of our commitment to serve the Master and our fellowmen.
Dallin H. Oaks
#6. CROWN
Too much rain
loosens trees.
In the hills giant oaks
fall upon their knees.
You can touch parts
you have no right to
places only birds
should fly to.
Kay Ryan
#7. A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
William Shenstone
#9. The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion.
Dallin H. Oaks
#10. The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.
Dallin H. Oaks
#11. 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
#12. The lovers were just entering the grounds of the pension. They were leaning toward each other as the water oaks bent from the sea. There was not a particle of earth beneath their feet. Their heads might have been turned upside down, so absolutely did they tread upon blue ether.
Kate Chopin
#13. Let us all improve our personal behavior and redouble our efforts to protect our loved ones and our environment from the onslaught of pornography.
Dallin H. Oaks
#15. There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question.
Dallin H. Oaks
#16. The key, I suppose, to understanding the heart of a Bennet appears to be that one must catch them when they are out of their wits." Bingley said with a laugh.
Diana J. Oaks
#17. Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.
Dorothy Wordsworth
#19. Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
Sappho
#20. A quarter-moon smeared a feverish glow on the marble slabs and dappled the trodden weeds that beleaguered them with a pale dewy leprosy; only the massy shadows which clustered around the trunks of the ancient oaks and beeches escaped its infection.
William Scott Home
#21. He felt his faith deeply, and above all out of doors, where the vaulted sky was his cathedral nave and the oaks its transept pillars: when faith failed, as it sometimes did, he saw the heavens declare the glory of God and heard the stones cry out.
Sarah Perry
#22. Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks.
Sappho
#23. Testimony is to know and to feel, Conversion is to do and to become.
Dallin H. Oaks
#24. When we undertake to cover our sins, ... behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man
Dallin H. Oaks
#26. Faith is developed in a setting where we cannot see ahead.
Dallin H. Oaks
#27. What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage.
Dallin H. Oaks
#28. O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
William Blake
#29. Alcohol is the number one addictive drug in our day.
Dallin H. Oaks
#30. Most angelic communications are felt or heard rather than seen.
Dallin H. Oaks
#31. Love shook my heart like a wind falling on oaks
on a mountain.
Sappho
#32. The most effective missionsries always act out of love
Dallin H. Oaks
#33. 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
#34. I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.
Dallin H. Oaks
#35. Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes
#36. In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment.
Dallin H. Oaks
#37. And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing, Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly oaks and elms And the sooty details of the scene rose, thrusting themselves between the world and me ... .
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#38. A woman always loves to hear that she looks tired, Mr. Darcy. Thank you.
Diana J. Oaks
#39. To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.
Dallin H. Oaks
#40. Consider how we use our time. Not everything is worth the portion of our life we give to obtain it. SOme things are better, and others are best.
Dallin H. Oaks
#41. Relaxing me from head to feet
Love masters me, the bitter sweet
O'er thy limbs breathing;
Yea, Eros now, the god born blind
Sweeps my soul like the mountain wind
Through the oaks seething.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#42. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.
Dallin H. Oaks
#43. Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#44. When we long for a live without difficulties, remind us that diamonds are made under pressure and oaks grow strong in contrary winds.
Peter Marshall
#45. 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
#46. Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it at all costs. Direct your thoughts in wholesome paths. Remember your covenants and be faithful in temple attendance.
Dallin H. Oaks
#47. We should recognize that the Lord will speak to us through the Spirit in His own time and in His own way.
Dallin H. Oaks
#48. Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
Alexander Pope
#49. Spirituality is not a function of occupation or calling. A scientist may be more spiritual than a theologian; a teacher may be more spiritual than an officer. Spirituality is determined by personal outlook and priorities. It is evident in our words and actions.
Dallin H. Oaks
#50. Our spirits ... require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.
Dallin H. Oaks
#51. At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains. Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen.
Gillian Flynn
#52. 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.
Dallin H. Oaks
#54. We must seek to be firmly rooted and converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Dallin H. Oaks
#55. You are not a match.
You are a goddamn wildfire.
Amanda Oaks
#56. He had a taste for wild, spreading, disorderly things: high mountains,aged oaks,and Aliena's hair.
Ken Follett
#57. The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use.
Nicholas Culpeper
#58. A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
Edward Abbey
#59. Revelation comes most often when we are on the move.
Dallin H. Oaks
#60. My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
Kaley Cuoco
#61. No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks.
Steve Fowler
#62. The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of his daughters, because only to his daughters has God given the power to be a creator of bodies so that God's design and the great plan might meet fruition.
Dallin H. Oaks
#63. Understand I will quietly slip away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming over the oaks.
I'll pursue the solitary pathways of the twilight meadows with only this one dream. You come too.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#64. It is the way that all girls who only know one boy move. Centered as if the love that boy feels for them anchors them deep as a tree's roots, holds them still as the oaks, which don't uproot in hurricane wind. Love as certainty.
Jesmyn Ward
#65. Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.
Augustus William Hare
#66. When you're involved in the work of the Lord, the power behind you is always greater than the obstacles before you.
Dallin H. Oaks
#67. Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
John Lyly
#68. if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d'if, william smithback could escape from river oaks
Douglas Preston
#69. See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.
Philip James Bailey
#70. Do not little strokes - fell lofty oaks? Will not continual droppings - wear away stones? Sin, a little thing?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#72. The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like the Apostle Paul-is available for every affliction in mortality.
Dallin H. Oaks
#73. An infant is a seed. Is it an oak seed or a cabbage seed? Who knows. All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.
Robertson Davies
#74. 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.
Dallin H. Oaks
#75. The good news is that when we do the Lord's work in the Lord's way, we are assured of His blessings to help us.
Dallin H. Oaks
#76. The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.
Dallin H. Oaks
#77. As children of God, knowing of His great love and His ultimate knowledge of what is best for our eternal welfare, we trust in Him. The first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and faith means trust.
Dallin H. Oaks
#78. The ocean-blue bowl won't
refuse to bruise, won't hold it back
from the gaping earth-wounds.
There will still come
water, chill wind and happy
goosebumps,
and in the utmost corners of oaks,
leaves laughing.
Bryana Johnson
#79. The wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant Oaks than to the least of all blades of grass, And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving
Kahlil Gibran
#80. Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad.
Dallin H. Oaks
#81. Just because something is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them. Some things are better than good, and these are the things that should command priority attention in our lives.
Dallin H. Oaks
#82. Big oaks grow from small acorns, and activity is a precursor to accomplishment. You don't think yourself into success.
Mark Sanborn
#83. Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime.
Dallin H. Oaks
#84. We are overcome by the "cares ... of this life" when we are paralyzed by fear of the future, which hinders our going forward in faith, trusting in God and His promises. It is up to each of us to set the priorities and to do the things that make our soil good and our harvest plentiful.
Dallin H. Oaks
#85. When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.
Dallin H. Oaks
#87. Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church.
Dallin H. Oaks
#88. Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side, Withstand the winter's storm, And spite of wind and tide, Grow up the meadow's pride, For both are strong Above they barely touch, but undermined Down to their deepest source, Admiring you shall find Their roots are intertwined Insep'rably.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. When we understand our relationship to God, we also understand our relationship to one another.
Dallin H. Oaks
#90. Tonight, I may get so nervous that I spill my Coke of drop popcorn down inside my top. Oh God, is my red leather halter cut too low? I look down to make sure I'm not wardrobe-malfunctioning.
Miranda Kenneally
#91. The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.
Dallin H. Oaks
#92. We must change all elements of our behavior that are in conflict with gospel ... covenants.
Dallin H. Oaks
#94. Become what our Heavenly Father desires you to become.
Dallin H. Oaks
#95. All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.
Dallin H. Oaks
#96. Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings.
Dallin H. Oaks
#97. When a choice will make a real difference in our lives - obvious or not - and when we are living in tune with the Spirit and seeking his guidance, we can be sure we will receive the guidance we need to attain our goal.
Dallin H. Oaks
#98. If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.
Tracy Chevalier
#99. 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.
Dallin H. Oaks
#100. And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see you.
Dallin H. Oaks
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