LDS Quotes About Agency

LDS Quotes About Agency

"Men and women receive their agency as a gift from God, but their liberty and, in turn, their eternal happiness come from obedience to His laws."
Elder L. Tom Perry, Obedience to Law is Liberty, April 2013 General Conference

"There is also an age-old excuse: 'The devil made me do it.' Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression."

President Boyd K. Packer, Cleansing The Inner Vessel, October 2010 General Conference

"Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness."
Elder Robert D. Hales, To Act for Ourselves: The Gift and Blessings of Agency, October 2006 General Conference

"There is something very liberating when an individual determines of his or her own free will to be obedient to our Father and our God and expresses that willingness to Him in prayer."
President Boyd K. Packer, Cleansing The Inner Vessel, October 2010 General Conference

"Whenever we choose to come unto Christ, take His name upon us, and follow His servants, we progress along the path to eternal life."
Elder Robert D. Hales, Agency: Essential to the Plan of Life, October 2010 General Conference

"The cost of the Atonement was borne by the Lord without compulsion, for agency is a sovereign principle. According to the plan, agency must be honored. It was so form the beginning, from Eden."
President Boyd K. Packer, Atonement, Agency, Accountability, April 1988 General Conference

"...we develop control by teaching freedom."
President Boyd K. Packer, Agency and Control, April 1983 General Conference

"Victory in the War in Heaven was a victory for man's agency."
Elder L. Tom Perry, Obedience to Law is Liberty, October 2013 General Conference

"Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard."
Elder D. Todd Christofferson, Moral Discipline, October 2009 General Conference

"Life is meant ot be a test to see if we will keep the commandments of God. We are free to obey or to ignore the spirit and the letter of the law. But the agency granted to man is a moral agency. We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences."
President Boyd K. Packer, Covenants, October 1990 General Conference

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