Path to What We May Become

The gospel of Jesus Christ opens the path to what we may become. Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ and His grace, our failures to live the celestial law perfectly and consistently in mortality can be erased and we are enabled to develop a Christlike character. Justice demands, however, that none of this happen without our willing agreement and participation. It has ever been so. Our very presence on earth as physical beings is the consequence of a choice each of us made to participate in our Father's plan.  Thus, salvation is certainly not the result of divine whim, but neither does it happen by divine will alone.  

      Elder D. Todd Christofferson - October 2014 General Conference "Free Forever to Act for themselves"

      https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10/free-forever-to-act-for-themselves?lang=eng