Agency Quotes

1.) "Agency is to act with accountability and responsibility for our actions. Our agency is essential to the plan of salvation." (Robert D. Hales, Agency: Essential to the Plan of Life, October 2010, http://www.lds.org/)

2.) "Our agency—our ability to choose and act for ourselves—was an essential element of this plan. Without agency we would be unable to make right choices and progress." (Robert D. Hales, Agency: Essential to the Plan of Life, October 2010,http://www.lds.org)

3.) "Free agency is an everlasting principle which has existed with God from all eternity. It is a gift from him given with the hope that we will apply it wisely in the conduct of our personal lives. Freedom of choice is a moral agency which we should keep uppermost in our minds in all our activities and decisions." (Delbert L. Stapley, Using Our Free Agency, April 1975, http://www.lds.org/)

4.) "Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness." (Robert D. Hales, To Act for Ourselves: The Gift and Blessings of Agency, April 2006, http://www.lds.org/)

5.) "We have been given agency, we have been given the blessings of the priesthood, and we have been given the Light of Christ and the Holy Ghost for a reason." (Robert D. Hales, To Act for Ourselves: The Gift and Blessings of Agency, April 2006, www.lds.org)

6.) "We need Cristians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations." (D. Todd Christofferson, The Power of Covenants, April 2009, http://www.lds.org/)

7.) "Moral agency is a vital element in our Father in Heaven’s plan of happiness. He understood that some of His spirit children would use that agency..." (Richard G. Scott, To Heal the Shattering Consequences of Abuse, April 2008, http://www.lds.org/)

8.) "...into this world, we brought with us from our heavenly home this God-given gift and privilege which we call our agency. It gives us the right and power to make decisions..." (Wolfgang H. Paul, The Gift of Agency, April 2006, www.lds.org)

9.) "Agency is the power to think, choose, and act for ourselves. It comes with endless opportunities, accompanied by responsibility and consequences." (Sharon G. Larsen, Agency--A Blessing and a Burden, October 1999, www.lds.org)

10.) "...of making choices to act. We teach that agency is the ability and privilege God gives us to choose and “to act for [ourselves]..." (Robert D. Hales, Agency: Essential to the Plan of Life, October 2010, www.lds.org)