Agency

1. Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness. - Robert D. Hales

2. Whenever we choose to come unto Christ, take His name upon us, and follow His servants, we progress along the path to eternal life. - Robert D. Hales

3. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. - D. Todd Christofferson

4. You have agency—“moral agency.” ² You are free to choose your standards. - Boyd K. Packer

5. The very choices made by reason of agency limit one’s agency in the future. You cannot exercise agency and escape accountability and responsibility for each choice. - Russell M. Nelson

6.  As children of our Heavenly Father, we have been blessed with the gift of moral agency, the capacity and power of independent action. Endowed with agency, we are agents, and we primarily are to act and not merely be acted upon—especially as we “seek learning … by study and also by faith”-David A. Bednar

7. Agency—our power to choose—is fundamental to the gospel plan that brings us to earth.- Dallin H. Oaks

8. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. - Robert D. Hales

9. Moral agency itself is in jeopardy! If we all pray fervently, the Lord will surely help us. And with those prayers, teach your children to obey the Word of Wisdom. It is their armor and will protect them from habits which obstruct the channels of personal revelation. Boyd K. Packer

10. Some of the most addictive drugs that, if abused, can hijack the brain and take away one’s agency include nicotine; opiates—heroin, morphine, and other painkillers; tranquilizers; cocaine; alcohol; marijuana; and methamphetamines. - M. Russell Ballard