Tuesday, April 30, 2013

We choose the influence of God or Satan

"When we reject the counsel which comes from God, we do not choose to be independent of outside influence. We choose another influence. We reject the protection of a perfectly loving, all-powerful, all-knowing Father in Heaven, whose whole purpose, as that of His Beloved Son, is to give us eternal life, to give us all that He has, and to bring us home again in families to the arms of His love. In rejecting His counsel, we choose the influence of another power, whose purpose is to make us miserable and whose motive is hatred. We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose."

- Elder Henry B. Eyring, Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, "Finding Safety in Counsel," General Conference, Apr 1997
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1997/04/finding-safety-in-counsel?lang=eng

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