Using your agency to choose His will, and not slackening even when the going gets hard, will not make you God’s puppet; it will make you like Him. God gave you agency and Jesus showed you how to use it so that eventually you could learn what They know, do what They do, and be what They are.

-D. Todd Christofferson was a member of the Presidency of the Seventy
of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this
devotional address was given on 31 January 2006