Freedom is responsibility.

For a long time I thought freedom was choice. When the prophets talked about choice and accountability, I thought that accountability was a supporting argument for the importance of choice.

Now I see it the other way around. Responsibility is the thing. Choice is important because allows for responsibility.

Or perhaps the true perspective is that “choice and accountability” is one concept. The one without the other may be something like cho without ice or accou without ntability.

 

We should (and we do) rejoice in the God-ordained plan that permits us to make choices to act for ourselves and experience the consequences, or as the scriptures express it, to “taste the bitter, that [we] may know to prize the good.”

-thus Elder Christofferson


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