Agency

1.     “Eternity is at stake, and our wise use of agency and our actions are essential that we might have eternal life.” Robert D. Hales – October 2010 General Conference “Agency: Essential to the Plan of Life” link

2.     “Warn them that they will encounter people who pick which commandments they will keep and ignore others that they choose to break. I call this the cafeteria approach to obedience. This practice of picking and choosing will not work. It will lead to misery."~ Russell M. Neilson, Face the Future With Faith, Conference April 2011

3.     “Choosing to do what the Lord has defined as right will, in the long run, always lead to the best outcomes”.- ~Richard G. Scott - Ensign, Nov. 1998, 69

4.     “You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.”~ Dieter F. Utchdorf, On the Wings of Eagles, BYU Devotional, July 2006

5.     “Do we have a guide to help us choose the right and avoid dangerous detours? I have tried to pattern my life after the Master. Whenever I have a difficult decision to make, I have looked at that picture and asked myself, “What would He do?” Then I try to do it. We can never go wrong when we choose to follow the Savior.”- Thomas S. Monson, Choose You This Day, Conference October 2004

6.     “Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.”- D. Todd Christofferson, Moral Discipline, Conference October 2009

7.     “Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan’s plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection. Without agency, none of us could grow and develop by learning from our mistakes and errors and those of others…. I do not really think the devil can make us do anything. Certainly he can tempt and he can deceive, but he has no authority over us that we do not give him.”~James E. Faust, The Forces That Will Save Us, First Presidency Message, January 2007

8.     Men will be held accountable for the things which they have and not for the things they have not. … All the light and intelligence communicated to them from their beneficent creator, whether it is much or little, by the same they in justice will be judged, and … they are required to yield obedience and improve upon that and that only which is given, for man is not to live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.~ Joseph Smith, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (2007), 405

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

10.  "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