Agency is a wonderful gift from God. The ability we have to choose what we are going to do is amazing. I am incredibly thankful for it. I am able tl use my agency to make choices that I later deem stupid and or not very wise. I have made many great choices that have helped me throughout my life. Some of those choices have been the decision to be baptized and be sealed to my husband in the temple. With baptism came the gift of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost helps me make certain the choices I am making will bring me closer to my goal of living with my Heavenly Father and family in the celestial kingdom. I am thankful that God has give me the capacity to look at my options and decide what I am going to do. I know my Heavenly Father has given me this gift so that I can choose to return to His presence. Even though, at times trials seem to stack up higher than ever, because of those trials I am able to learn something that will help me on my way.
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf , Come, Join with Us, General Conference October 2013
Quote 2:"Critical to our knowledge of the plan of happiness is an understanding of the great governing principle of agency. A person does not have to spend much time in the schoolroom of mortality to realize that Heavenly Father’s plan does not provide for blissful happiness at every step along our mortal journey. Life is filled with harsh realities that tug at the heart and tear away at the soul."
M. Russell Ballard , Answers to Life's Questions, General Conference April 1995
Quote 3: Please understand, no one has the privilege to choose what is right. God reserved that prerogative to Himself. Our agency does allow us to choose among alternate paths, but then we are bound to the consequence God has decreed. Later, if we don’t like where the path takes us, the only out is through repentance.
Richard G. Scott, Healing Your Damaged Life, General Conference October 1992
Quote 4: “For relief of an ailment, as a doctor of medicine I might write a prescription. As an ordained Apostle, I would invoke the spiritual blessing of eternal perspective. Combined, my spiritual prescription would return the gift of agency to its rightful owner.”
President Ezra Taft Benson, Combined with Spiritual Prescription, General Conference April 1967
Quote 5: “Those who violate this commandment in the exercise of their agency are answerable for losing the blessings which observance of this commandment would bring.”
James E. Faust, "Those Who Violate the Commandment", General Conference 1986
Quote 6: “Bondage, subjugation, addictions, and servitude come in many forms. They can be literal physical enslavement but can also be loss or impairment of moral agency that can impede our progress.”
Quentin L. Cook, "regrets can impede our progress", "Lamentations of Jeremiah: Beware of bondage" Conference October 2013
Quote 7: “Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide. Agency is too fundamental a doctrine to be left in such jeopardy.” Boyd K. Packer
"Revelation in a Changing World", Conference October 1989
Quote 8: “We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.”
Henry B. Eyering, "Spiritual Preparedness: Start Early and Be Steady" Conference October 2005
Quote 9: “You will learn to make reality of your worthy dreams for the future. You will be led to see a vision of your true potential and then, through obedience to correct principles and the consistent, appropriate use of moral agency, begin to convert that potential into reality.”
Richard G. Scott, "Worthy Dreams for the Future", Conference October 1991
Quote 10: My beloved brothers and sisters don’t walk! Run! Run to receive the blessings of agency.
Robert D. Hales, General Conference April 2015 Preserving Agency, Protecting Religious Freedom
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