“Agency is the power to think, choose, and act for ourselves. It comes with endless opportunities, accompanied by responsibility and consequences. It is a blessing and a burden. Using this gift of agency wisely is critical today because never in the world's history have God's children been so blessed or so blatantly confronted with so many choices.” ThinkingWorldChildrenTodayChoicesOpportunityResponsibilityBlessingConsequenceBlessedBurdenCriticalEndlessAgencyEndless Opportunities Author:Sharon G. Larsen
“Clearly, one primary purpose of our existence upon the earth is to obtain a body of flesh and bones. We have also been given the gift of agency. In a thousand ways we are privileged to choose for ourselves. Here we learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that there are consequences attached to our actions.” WayHardBodyActionEarthPurposeEvilGivenExistenceSweetThousandConsequenceBonesFleshBitterPrimariesAgencyGood And EvilPrivilegedOur ActionsDifferentiate Author:Thomas S. Monson
“We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.” ChoicesConsequenceAgencyGood And Bad Author:Robert D. Hales
“The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene is the recovery of agency, or alternatively to come to terms with its loss and to understand how to go on.” TermChallengesLossResultsGoes OnConsequenceFundamentalsRecoveryAgencyEthicalErosion Author:Dale Jamieson
“It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.” WorldGivingHumansWellsMayLittlesHas BeensMadeStillsDifferentWarAgeScienceNumbersPayRaceGreaterProgressFieldsConsequenceHorseGive MeInfiniteInventionAwfulHuman RaceAgencyBombsInternalsMarchEnginesElectricityMy ThoughtsConvenienceSteamPredecessorsAtomic BombCombustionSteam EnginesEntrusting Book:If I lived my life again Source: If I lived my life again